Timeline of the Church of the Genuine Orthodox Christians of Russia and Greece and the Great Apostasy of Orthodoxy in the 20th Century

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1902-1904 - The Patriarchates of Constantinople, under Joachim III, and Jerusalem, under
Damianos, along with the holy Synods of the Churches of Russia, Greece, and Romania
officially condemn the 1582 new calendar of Pope Gregory XIII (which is called the Gregorian
Calendar). They solemnly promise to remain in the Julian Calendar, named after Julius Caesar,
which the Church has adopted since the time of Christ. They had to make these pronouncements
because of the pressures to modernize the Church in 20th century.

1903 - Saint Seraphim of Sarov is glorified by the Russian Church and Tsar Nicholas
II.

1904-05 - Russian war with Japan, and the 1905 socialist revolution, forced Tsar Nicholas
II to grant a constitution and establish a parliament, or Duma.

Dec 20, 1908 - Saint John of Kronstadt reposes, foreseeing the future tribulation of the
Russian Orthodox Church and its people.

1909 - Meletios IV (Metaxakis), the future Patriarch of Constantinople, becomes a
Freemason in the Grand Orient Lodge of Greece; in 1910, he makes 33rd degree. Freemasons are
pagans and ecumenists who believe that religious dogmas and practices are not hindrances to
the union of all religions, therefore, no single church can claim to be “the pillar and
ground of truth”, as the Orthodox Church is.

1910 - At the World Missionary Conference in Edinburgh, Scotland, the Ecumenical Movement
among the heterodox is born.

1917 - Russian Tsar Nicholas II is betrayed, and abdicates his throne; he is martyred with
his family. Thus was accomplished the prophecy of the holy Apostle Paul in reference to the
antichrist when he wrote: “For the mystery of lawlessness already is operating, only
there is the one who restraineth now, until he should be taken out of the midst. And then the
lawless one shall be revealed...” that is, the antichrist.

Aug 1917 - All Russian Church Council meets and reestablishes the Patriarchate.
Metropolitan Tikhon is elected by lot as Patriarch.

October 1917 - Bolsheviks overthrow provisional government.

1918 - Treaty of Brest-Litovsk brings war with Germany to an end, but at the cost of
Russia ceding large tracts of territory; Tsar Nicholas II and his family are martyred; Baltic
states, Finland and Poland ceded as the Russian Empire collapses.

Jan 25, 1918 - Metr. Vladimir of Kiev and Galich becomes the first martyr of the Communist
era in Russia.

1 Feb 1918 - Pat. Tikhon, future new martyr of Russia, issues his famous Anathema against
the Bolshevik government. His Anathema is confirmed by the All-Russian Council of
1917-1918.

Nov 1918 - Meletios IV (Metaxakis) enthroned as Archbishop of Athens.

1918-22 - Civil war erupts between the Red Army and White Russians, or anti-communists,
who were aided by Britain, France and the US. This enables bishops of the Russian Orthodox
Church to escape to Europe with the White Russians.

January 1920 - The Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople issues the disastrous
Encyclical entitled, “To the Churches of Christ, Wheresoever They may Be”. In
this encyclical, they incite the Orthodox Churches to forget their theological differences
with the heterodox and enter into dialogue with the heretics, having as their ultimate end
the unification of all Christendom as one Church. The encyclical called for the formation of
a league of Churches. This ultimately led to the world-wide ecumenical movement.

April 23, 1920 - Moustafa Kemal Ataturk becomes dictator of the “liberated”
country of Turkey. He liberated it through much bloodshed, mainly from Ottoman rule. He was a
high level member of the Italian Masonic lodge in Macedonia, named “Resorta e
Veritus”. He will be sure that his fellow masonic members will be placed in the highest
offices of the State, including the Patriarchate of Constantinople, while he is head of State
until his death in 1938, as can be seen by the future installations of the future Patriarchs
Meletios IV, Basil III and Photios II.

Nov 9, 1920 - Saint Nectarios of Aegina reposes in the Lord, foreknowing his departure and
foretelling that wolves shall gain control of the Church.

Nov 20, 1920 - The future martyr, Patriarch Tikhon, and the Holy Synod of the Russian
Orthodox Church issue the famous Ukase #362, canonically establishing the free part of the
Russian Church outside of Russia. The Russian Church Abroad is headed by Met. Anthony
(Khrapovitsky).

Jan 24, 1922 - Meletios IV is uncanonically enthroned as Patriarch of Constantinople. His
deposition as Archbishop of Athens is “lifted” on September 24, due to pressure
from the Greek government.

Sept 9, 1922 - Moustafa Kemal Ataturk, the victorious revolutionary ruler of Turkey, led
his troops into Smyrna, as a flotilla of 27 Allied warships-including three American
destroyers-looked on. The Turks soon proceeded to indulge in an orgy of pillage, rape, and
slaughter. The Western powers, anxious to protect their oil and trade interests in Turkey,
condoned the holocaust, remaining silent and refusing to intervene. Included in the list of
Allied Powers is: France and Britain, were both well invested in Smyrna, owing to railways,
trams, and the electric utility; American interests were in oil and tobacco; France was
concerned about collecting on several pre-war loans made to Turkey; and, Italy was determined
that the Greeks should not gain dominion in Turkey. Turkish forces then set fire to the city
and destroyed her. Of the three million displaced and slaughtered Greeks and Armenians of
Asia Minor, 1.5 million were Orthodox Christians.

1922 - Meletios IV, as Ecumenical Patriarch, recognizes the validity of Anglican Orders!
Introduces for the first time kneeling for all those present at Divine Liturgy during the
consecration!

Feb 1923 - The Revolutionary Greek government in Athens removes Archbp. Theokletos of
Athens and replaces him with Chrysostomos (Papadopoulos)!

June 1923 - Meletios IV convenes “Pan-Orthodox Congress” to switch Orthodoxy
to the new calendar! All reject it. Meletios IV however switches Constantinople to new
calendar, with prior notification by Chrysostomos (Papadopoulos) Archbp. of Athens that the
State Church of Greece would agree with the change.

Sept 20, 1923 - Meletios IV resigns as Ecumenical Patriarch after being ousted by
dissatisfied Orthodox people of Constantinople for his false confession of Orthodoxy. He was
subjected to assault and battery.

1924 - Greece votes for abolition of the monarchy. The country becomes republic.

Mar 1924 - Archbp. Chrysostomos (Papadopoulos) institutes new (papal) calendar for use in
Church of Greece. The pious Orthodox Christians of Greece, choosing to use the traditional
calendar sanctioned by the holy Fathers, refuse to accept the change, and are persecuted.

Apr 1924 - Meletios IV receives written reproofs for calendar change from: Patriarch
Damianos of Jerusalem, Patriarch Gregory of Antioch, Patriarch Demetrios of Serbia, and
Patriarch Photios of Alexandria. Patriarch Tikhon of Russia does not write a reproof, because
his activities are restricted by the G.P.U. (later to be renamed the K.G.B.).

1925 - The bishop and fellow masonic lodge member of Ataturk, Basil III, is installed as
Patriarch of Constantinople.

Mar 25, 1925 - Holy New-Martyr Patriarch Tikhon poisoned by the Bolsheviks, because he
would not subject the Russian Orthodox Church to the Soviet authorities.

Sept 14, 1925 - (O.S.) The miraculous sign of the Holy Cross appears in the sky outside of
Athens, over the Church of St. John the Theologian on Mount Hymettos for one hour, where the
Old Calendar Orthodox Christians, having secretly assembled, are celebrating the vigil of the
Exaltation of the Holy Cross, according to the Church Calendar. Thousands of faithful were
not disturbed by the police that were sent to disperse them. This miracle strengthens the old
calendarists all over Greece, as a true sign from God supporting their holy struggle.

Great Thurs 1926 - 450 Athonite monks led by Fr. Arsenios Kotteas sign “The Sacred
League of the Zealot Monks” for defense of Orthodoxy against the new calendar
innovation. The “Greek Religious Community of the Genuine Orthodox Christians”
(G.O.C.) of Greece works with the Athonite Zealot monks against the new calendar
innovation.

May 1926 - Meletios IV becomes Patriarch of Alexandria and introduces new calendar.

1926-1929 - Greek new calendarists persecute and even kill some old calendarists in
Greece.

1927 - The Protestant Conference on Faith and Order convenes in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Among the participants are representatives from the Churches of Constantinople, Alexandria,
Jerusalem, Greece, Cyprus, Serbia, Bulgaria, Poland and Romania.

July 16/29, 1927 - Declaration of Met. Sergius, head of the Moscow Patriarchate,
officially subjected the Russian Orthodox Church to the Soviet authorities. This marks the
beginning of the present-day Moscow (Soviet) Patriarchate. Those who remain faithful Orthodox
are either martyred or go into the catacombs. The 70-year persecution of the Church, which
was started by the communists, and aided by the conspiracy of Met. Sergius and his
successors, succeeded in destroying 76,000 churches, 1,400 monasteries and convents, and
60,000,000 Orthodox faithful, among whom were 70,000 clergy and 30,000 monastics. In addition
to this, 150 diocesan schools, 54 seminaries, and 4 ecclesiastical academies were destroyed.
This is the worst persecution in the history of Orthodoxy. The Soviet Moscow Patriarchate,
after destroying the Church in Russia, will seek to destroy Orthodoxy everywhere else, by
being a leader in the ecumenical heresy.

July 28, 1928 - (O.S.) Metropolitan Anthony Khrapovitsky issues an “Open
Epistle” (No. 892), signed by all the Synod of Bishops of ROCOR, concerning the Sergian
and Evlogian schisms. In this epistle there is enunciated a judgment on “Metropolitans
Sergius and Evologius, who have now fallen away from the saving unity of the Church and have
bound themselves to the enemies of Christ and of the holy Church...the Bolsheviks and the
Jews who stand at the head of the Bolsheviks’ kingdom!...that illegally formed
organization which has entered into union with God’s enemies, which Metropolitan
Sergius calls an Orthodox Synod - but which the best Russian hierarchs, clergy, and laymen
have refused to recognize - this organization must not be recognized by our Orthodox
Churches, nor by our Synod of Bishops with its flock here abroad. Furthermore, the organizers
of the Moscow Synod must be recognized to be exactly the same sort of apostates from the
Faith as the ancient libellatici,...real apostates from the Faith of Christ! Let us hold fast
to our holy Orthodox Church and not entere into communion in prayer with those who are so
poorly grounded in Her, that they express sentiments of loyal submission to Her
enemies.” [Zhiznopisaniye Blazhenneishago Mitropolita Antonyia, Vol. 7, pp.218-223]

August 22, 1928, - ROCOR’s first-hierarch, Metropolitan Anthony (Khrapovitsky) of
Kiev issued “the completely definitive declaration of our Synod of Bishops that the
Moscow Synod has deprived itself of all authority, since it has entered into agreement with
the atheists, and without offering any resistance it has tolerated the closing and
destruction of the holy churches, and the other innumerable crimes of the Soviet
government...”

1929 - The bishop and fellow masonic lodge member of Ataturk, Photios II, is installed as
Patriarch of Constantinople.

1933 - State Church of Greece condemns Freemasons and Freemasonry as paganism.

1934 - Metropolitan Anthony Khrapovitsky in his Paschal encyclical (1934) again refers to
the gracelessness of the Sergianist Moscow Synod and Evlogian Parisian Exarchate and other
schisms: “The present age is rich not in ascetical feats of piety and confession of
faith, but in cheating, lies, and deceits. It is noteworthy that several hierarchs and their
flocks, for the most part Russians, have already fallen away... self-proclaimed heads of all
sorts of schisms in Moscow, America, and Western Europe. It is clear that they have ceased to
believe in the unity of the Church throughout the whole world and do not wish to admit it,
attempting to bear calmly the refusal of the true Church to have relations with them, and
imagining that one can supposedly save ones soul even without communion with
Her...”

“Unfortunately, some Orthodox laymen, even, alas, many priests (and hierarchs) have
subjected themselves to this state of gracelessness, although still retaining the out ward
appearance of the church services and the apparent performance of the Mysteries.”
[quoted in a letter of Metropolitan Philaret (Vozhnesensky) of ROCOR to Abbess Magdalena
(Grabbe) of Lesna Covent, France Nov. 26/Dec. 9, 1979]

October 1934 - George Paraschos and Basil Stamatoulis, the President and Secretary General
respectively of the Community of Genuine Orthodox Christians (the Greek Old Calendarists),
appealed to the First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, Metropolitan Anthony
(Khrapovitsky), to consecrate bishops for the Old Calendarists and take them under his
omophorion. [Stavros Karamitsos, The Agony in the Garden of Gethsemane {in Greek}, pp.
111-112]. Metropolitan Anthony and the ROCOR had taken the public stance that the innovation
of the new menaion was a serious error and a violation of the holy canons, but not of such
magnitude as to cause an actual schism yet, and the ROCOR still recognized and had communion
with the New-Calendarists as being part of the same Orthodox Church as the ROCOR.
Consequently, the appeal of the leaders of the Greek Old Calendarists to Metropolitan Anthony
shows that the mindset of the Greek Old Calendarists in 1934 was not Matthewite but similar
to that of Metropolitan Anthony, that is, they did not say, like Bishop Matthew of Bresthena
later claimed, that since 1924 the adopters of the new-menaion and everyone who had communion
with them or even prayed with them had been graceless schismatics. Rather they recognized
that, although a serious canonical violation had occurred which they ought not participate
in, the New-Calendarists had not yet transgressed so grieviously as to have fallen away from
the Church and were as yet still valid hierarchs. The then-archimandrite Matthew had written
this same year (1934) in a preface to a book of his that the New Calendarists were
“antichrists “ and “ seven times anathema”. Furthermore: “Those
who govern the Church of Greece today have, together with the clergy who follow them,
persisted in error, cacodoxy, schism, the blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, the heresy of
the Papist Calendar! And they have led the people into error and become
‘heresiarch’ hierarchs according to the divine Fathers.” This shows that
Vicar-Bishop Matthew’s mindset was always contrary to the mind of the rest of the Greek
Old-Calendarists.

May 13/26 1935 - Seeing that Archbp. Chrysostom (Papadopoulos) will not reject the new
calendar innovation, three Metropolitans leave the State Church. The Synod of “Genuine
Orthodox Church” (G.O.C.) is formed by the following three Greek bishops in the
presence of 25,000 faithful who leave the State Church: (President) Met. Germanos of
Demetrias, Met. Chrysostomos of Florina, and Met. Chrysostomos of Zakynthos. They also make
an official pronouncement that the new calendarists are schismatics. Over 800 parishes are
established all over Greece.

May 13+, 1935 - Fearing imminent arrest, the 3 G.O.C. Metropolitans hastily consecrate 4
new Bishops: Germanos (Varykopoulos) of the Cyclades, Christophoros (Hatzis) of Megara,
Polykarpos (Liosis) of Diavlia, and Matthew (Karpathakes) auxiliary bishop of Bresthena.
G.O.C. has seven bishops now and makes the notable pronouncement that the new calendarist
churches are schismatics.

June 21, 1935 - State Church response to the May 1935 consecrations: condemned the 3
metropolitans and exiled them to 3 different monasteries; at a later trial the 4 new bishops
were “also condemned and deposed”; Polykarpos of Diavlia and Christophoros of
Megara ask the State Church for clemency, and go back; Germanos of the Cyclades was exiled;
Matthew of Bresthena refused to recognize the State Church authority in their synod, and was
confined to his monastery. G.O.C. has 5 bishops now. Before their exile, three bishops issued
“A Pastoral Encyclical to the Greek Orthodox People” and state that the New
Calendar Church is schismatic, and without grace.

July 1935 - Meletios Metaxakis goes out of his mind, and after six days of grinding his
teeth and wringing his hands, dies, groaning plaintively his last words: “Alas, I have
divided the Church, I have destroyed Orthodoxy.” He dies in Zurich, Switzerland and is
buried in Cairo, Egypt. At his hierarchal funeral, his Masonic apron is placed over his
episcopal vestments by his brother Masons. His Masonic gloves and evergreen twig are placed
in his coffin.

July 28/August 10, 1936 - The great Metro. Anthony (Khrapovitsky), “the second
Solomon,” reposes in the Lord in Belgrade, Serbia. He is succeeded by Metro. Anastassy
(Gribanovsky).

June 1937 - Letter from Met. Germanos of Demetrias and Met. Chrysostomos (Florina) to the
monk Markos (Khaniotes) stated that the falling into a curable error does not allow them to
declare a Church graceless, but they should wall themselves off from it. Also stated that a
Pan-Orthodox Council is required to condemn the new calendarists and to declare that the
mysteries of the new calendarists do not have grace.

Sept 1937 - Bishop Matthew of Bresthena demands and doesn’t receive a written reply
from Met. Germanos of Demetrias clearly stating that the mysteries of the new calendarists
are without grace; he breaks communion with him, calling him the former Bishop of Demetrias,
as if he had already been accused, tried, convicted and deposed. Bishop Matthew, at this
point, causes a schism, and among the priests who follow him is Auxentios (Pastras). He will
stay with Matthew and will return to the G.O.C. in 1950. Thus started the beginning of what
is known as the Florinite Synod: Met. Germanos (Demetrias), Met. Chrysostomos (Florina) and
Met. Chrysostomos (Zakynthos); and the Matthewite Synod: Bishop Germanos (Cyclades), Bishop
Matthew (Bresthena). G.O.C. (Florinite) has three bishops now.

Nov 1937-1945 - Met. Chrysostomos (Florina) makes statements supporting June 1937 view,
and states he would never consecrate any more bishops, because the old calendar was a
“guard” against the heterodoxies of the State Church, not a Church of its
own.

1938 - 1945 World War II

1941 - Greece falls to Germany. More than 100,000 die in famine.

1943 Met. Germanos of Demetrias requests to return to the new calendarists. He is denied
and later dies and is buried by the new calendarists.

1943 - Germanos (Cyclades) breaks from Matthew (Bresthena). He does this believing that
Matthew’s positions are errant. The Matthewites are left with ONE bishop.

September 8, 1943 - By order of Stalin, without discussion or dissent, Met. Sergius
Stragorodsky is declared “Patriarch” by a newly-created puppet synod of his two
fellow sergianist bishops and a handful of renovationist protopriests ordained by them just
recently for this purpose. In years to come many people at home and abroad will be deceived
and brought to perish by this absolute creature, mouthpiece, and organ of the KGB, the
false-Patriarchate of Moscow, founded not by the Church nor within the Church but by Stalin
and within a directorate of the KGB.

1948 - The modern State of Israel is established. The first country to recognize it is the
Soviet Union.

1948 - Athenagoras, former Archbp. of North & South America, current 33rd degree
Mason, becomes Patriarch of Constantinople, after Patriarch Maximos is declared
“mentally unfit” and forcibly retired! Athenagoras said, “We are in error
and sin if we think that the Orthodox Faith came down from heaven and that the other dogmas
[i.e. religions] are unworthy. Three hundred million men have chosen Mohammedanism as the way
to God, and further hundreds of millions are Protestants, Catholics and Buddhists. The aim of
every religion is to make man better”!

Aug 26, 1948 - Bp. Matthew (Karpathakes) of Bresthena is “authorized” by his
Church assembly, led by the Abbess Mariam and Protosyngellos (Protopriest) Eugenios Tombros,
to elect and consecrate bishops by himself, an uncanonical act, prohibited by the Apostolic
Canons and the whole sacred canonical law of the Church, declaring “that our most
Reverend Bishop Matthew of Bresthena should proceed to the consecration of new bishops,
insofar as the other pseudo-bishops of the True Orthodox Christians neither understand nor
confess Orthodoxy, nor unite with us, nor even agree to make consecrations. We grant him the
authority to proceed both to the election of people and to their immediate consecration, in
accordance with the divine and sacred canons and the opinions of our canon law experts, and
in accordance with the practice of the whole Church of Christ, which has accepted, in case of
necessity (as is the case today) such a dispensation [oikonomia], as we have just heard from
our Protosynkellos, Protopriest Eugene Tombros, who explained the validity of the
consecration of one Bishop by one Bishop in accordance with the law of our Orthodox
Church!”

They had deceived themselves to believe that Matthew was the only Orthodox bishop left in
the world. Furthermore, the idea that the laity and lower clergy can give a bishop
(vicar-bishop) authority denied to him by the Holy Apostles and Holy Councils is
Protestantism.

Sept 1948 - Bp. Matthew (Karpathakes) of Bresthena consecrates Bishop Spyridon of
Trimython (Cyprus). Abbess Mariam holds his paralyzed hand on the head of Spyridon. With him
Matthew ordains Demetrios of Thessalonika, Kallistos of Corinth, and Andreas of Patras. This
action scandalizes many of Matthew’s followers, who return to Met. Chrysostomos of
Florina who has the vast majority of the faithful. They also become known as the
“Florinites”.

Oct 29, 1948 - In a pastoral letter, the three Florinite bishops Metropolitan Chrysostom
of Florina and Bishops Christopher of Megara and Polycarp of Diavala denounce Matthew’s
‘consecrations’ as an “indescribable impiety which makes Bishop Matthew
guilty before God”. Matthew is labelled a “false teacher” who consecrated
new bishops as “only in order to fulfil his own personal interests”. However,
they also declare that the New-Calendarists have “separated themselves from the Unique
Body of Orthodoxy. We consider and believe that the official Church of Greece is schismatic
and that the services celebrated by its clergy are deprived of Divine grace.”

1949 - Archbp. Chrysostomos (Papadopoulos) of the State Church dies a sorrowful death in a
Greek hospital. In the posture of an animal, on his hands and knees, he constantly tries to
flee visions of demons, until his death. Nurses who attend him convert to the old
calendar.

1950 - The World Council of Churches (WCC) central committee at Toronto states that member
churches believe that the Church of Christ consists of all its members together, and one
member cannot believe that it is the only true Church of Christ.

May/June 1950 - Archbp. Chrysostomos (Florina) issues statement pronouncing new
calendarists as schismatic, and must be chrismated upon their return. He rescinds and
apologizes for any statement or remarks made otherwise between 1935 and 1950.

Jan 1951 - State Church of Greece now headed by Archbp. Spyridon issues persecution
decree: 1) old calendar clergy to be hunted down, captured and stripped of clerical garb; 2)
old calendar monks & nuns to be incarcerated in monasteries and stripped of monastic garb
& prosecuted; 3) old calendar churches & monasteries should be “taken
back”; 4) and the foregoing is to be carried out by the Ministries of Public Order,
Justice, Religion, and Education. An Inquisition atmosphere prevails.

1951 - Archbp. Chrysostomos (Florina) exiled by State Church to Monastery of Ypsilon, at
Mytilene.

Mar 1951 - Met. Germanos (Cyclades) dies while under house arrest.

1952 - Archbp. Chrysostomos (Florina) makes a statement against the new calendarists and
explains that the True Orthodox had condemned the State Church as schismatic “to defend
ourselves against [the State Church] which first declared us to be schismatic.”

1954 - The 2nd World Council of Churches Assembly occurs in Evanston, Indiana, where it is
stated concerning “the separation of the Churches”: “From the
Church’s beginning there has been an indissociated unity with Christ, because He did
not separate Himself from His believers. But the Church has never realized the fullness of
this unity. From the start, divisions disrupted the unity, revealed in Christ, of the people,
so that we can think of the Church as we think of an individual believer, of whom it is
possible to say that he is at the same time righteous and a sinner.”

1955 - Soviet Patriarch Alexis I (Simansky) declares: “The Russian Orthodox Church
supports the totally peaceful foreign policy of our [soviet] government, not because the
Church allegedly lacks freedom, but because Soviet policy is righteous and corresponds to the
Christian ideals which the Church preaches.”

1955 - Archbishop Vitaly (Maximenko) of Eastern America (ROCA) publishes his work
“The Motives [Motifs?] of the My Life”, wherein he writes: ‘They say:
‘the [Moscow] patriarchate has changed nothing, neither dogmas, nor services, nor
rites’. ‘No’, we reply, ‘the patriarchate has violated the vital
dogma of the Church of Christ, has destroyed its vital purpose - serving the regeneration of
people, and has substituted for it the godless aims of communism, which are unnatural for the
Church....It is not the personal sin of this or that hierarch, but the root sin of the Moscow
Patriarchate, confirmed, preached, sealed by an oath before the whole world. It is, so to
speak, dogmatized apostasy’”

Sept 8, 1955 - Archbp. Chrysostomos of Florina, foreknowing his departure, receives the
holy Mysteries and reposes in the Lord on the Feast of the Nativity of the Virgin; and his
funeral is attended by tens of thousands. His relics, six years later, are found to be
incorrupt and fragrant. The G.O.C. establishes a twelve-member commission to administer the
Church and search for a way of restoring their hierarchy. The G.O.C. will be left without
bishops for five years.

Apr 1957 - Florinite clergy-laity congress with 100 priests elects three archimandrites as
suitable candidates for bishops: the candidates elected were Archimandrites Chrysostomos
(Naslimes), the aged Akakios [Pappas, the older] and Chrysostomos (Kiousis).

1959 - In an unpublicized visit to the Monophysite Coptic Patriarch of Alexandria,
Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras declares: “In truth we are all one, we are all
Orthodox Christians...We have the same sacraments, the same history, the same traditions. The
divergence is on the level of phraseology”! This visit will only be revealed by the
New-Calendarists in the 1980’s.

1959 - Archbp. Iakovos of New York (a 33 degree Mason) is elected and enthroned as Primate
of the Greek Archdiocese of North and South America.

Oct 5, 1959 - Metropolitan Anastassy addresses the ROCA Sobor convened in New York City,
stating: “...And so in these frightful days,...we must...turn(ing) aside completely
from the falseness of those who have now occupied [the throne of Moscow]...Let us in every
way turn away from them, but at the same time let us arm ourselves with apostolic zeal. We
must avoid as a pestilence every kind of contact with them. You know that these people with
completely-burned consciences will never cease from waging war on us, although they
constantly change their methods of warfare. At times they openly attack and at times they
utilize a circumventing maneuver in order to conceal their true purpose. Often they appear as
angels of light, in order to delude even the chosen ones if possible...let us gird ourselves
in the armour of truth, and then the grace of God will not be taken away from us.”

1960 - Akakios [Pappas, the older] leaves Greece with a medical pass for health reasons;
the other two are denied permission by the authorities, who suspect their departure is for
ordination to the episcopacy.

1960 - The KGB General Kuroyedov orders the Moscow Patriarchate Alexis I to bring the
Moscow Patriarchate into union with the WCC for the sake of Soviet foreign policy goals,
especially propaganda. His report to the Communist Central Committee states: ‘The
Patriarch accepted the recommendation of the Council [For Religious Affairs] concerning the
entry of the Russian Orthodox Church into the membership of the World Council of
Churches...’

1960 - Bishop Anthony of Geneva and Metropolitan Aimilianos of Sylibria/Kalabria/Miletos
concelebrate in Bishop Anthony’s church in Geneva. This is the last time, according to
Bishop Anthony of Geneva’s 1974 report, that, by mutual decision, any concelebration
occurs between any bishop of ROCA and official representative of the Autocephalous Churches.
Soviet ‘Patriarch’ Alexis I (Simansky) issues a “thunderous” epistle
to Patriarch Athenagoras demanding the cessation of communion with ROCA as
’schismatic’. Patriarch Athenagoras issues an encyclical absolutely forbidding
all concelebrations between clergy of the Ecumenical Patriarchate and clergy of the ROCA.

Dec 1960 - Archbp. Seraphim of Chicago (Russian Church Abroad) with Bishop Theophilus of
Detroit (hierarch to the new calendarist Roumanian parishes in the Russian Church Abroad)
consecrate as a bishop, without prior synodal permission, Akakios [Pappas, the older] of
Talantion, in Detroit, Michigan (note: this service was witnessed by Archimandrites Petros
& Akakios (Pappas, the younger). G.O.C. (Florinites) has 1 bishop now.

1961 - The Moscow Patriarchate joins the World Council of Churches, followed by the Polish
Orthodox Church, the Roumanian Orthodox Church and the Bulgarian Orthodox Church.

Apr 1961 - Archbp. Iakovos of New York makes statement calling the sacred canons
“pseudo-documents” and “religious prejudices” that prevent unity with
non-Orthodox Christians of the West. “We have tried to rend the seamless robe of the
Lord - and then we cast ‘arguments’ and ‘pseudo-documents’ to prove
that ours is the Christ, and ours is the Church.Living together and praying together without
any walls of partition raised, either by racial or religious prejudices, is the only way that
can lead surely to unity.”

May 1961 - Archbishop Averky (ROCA) publishes “I Will Build My Church and the Gates
of Hell Shall Not Prevail Against It”, wherein he writes: “But is it possible for
the True Church of Christ to reconcile Herself somehow with evil, which comes from the enemy
of mankind’s salvation - the devil? Is it possible for Her to co-exist with it, without
carrying on a most decisive struggle against it? Of course not, for, according to the words
of Christ the Savior, no one can serve two masters (Matthew 6:24). And it is namely for this
reason that they who broke away from the true Church, the so-called movement of “The
Living Church”, the movement for reform which wanted to compromise Christianity with
this world that lies in sin, and “Sergianism” which preaches
“co-existence” with the godless power of Communism, and communion in the
so-called “ecumenical movement” that recognizes the equality in rights and
dignity of all groups and “denominations,” all this is in reality already a
departure from the true Church. Can that organization be called a Church which calls for
“loyalty” to the servants of Satan? This, of course, already is not the Church,
but a false church, or according to the word of God “the congregation of
evil-doers,” and to remain in such a church is not only not helpful toward salvation,
but, on the contrary - it is ruinous. It...is our sacred pastoral duty to warn our believers
about those countless numbers of subtle temptations which now have been abundantly sown about
everywhere; we are obligated to teach them to discern the true Church, to be able to
distinguish it from the false church and “the congregation of evil-doers.” Christ
our Saviour gave us the great promise that the gates of hell shall not prevail over His
Church, that is to say all the forces of hell in all their maximum endeavour. But believers
separately, and pastors individually, and even separate hierarchs and whole local churches
headed by them, can fall away from the One True Church, preparing for themselves and their
followers eternal perdition in the depths of hell...But the True Church of Christ, which did
not involve itself in “co-existence” with the evil one and did not bow before the
Antichrist, will not end its own existence, in spite of all the difficult hardships, shocks
and persecution to which it will be subjected up to the very end of the world. It will exist
to the very Second Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, even if only one bishop exists who has
retained and kept loyalty to Christ the Saviour with a most insignificant group of clergy and
laymen.”

Oct 1961 - Letter sent from the Russian Church Abroad to the Greek old calendarists (sent
to Greek Archdiocese of America & the Ecumenical Patriarch): the new calendar adoption is
a mistake; nevertheless, we have not broken communion with canonical churches that have
adopted it. The change of the calendar was not an error serious enough to warrant the
breaking of communion.

Nov 20, 1961 - Metropolitan Anastassy and the ROCA issue “An Appeal to All the
Christian World regarding the Assembly of the WCC in New Delhi”, warning the world
about the danger of accepting the communist agents in cassocks (MP hierarchs), and further
writes: “Since that time [Sergius’ 1927 Declaration], the Secret Church, the
“Catacomb” Church, was organized in our Fatherland, and it exists even
now...called [by the Soviet Press] the ‘Sect of the genuinely Orthodox
Christians’...Living abroad with our autonomous administration, on the basis of ukaz of
7/20 Nov 1920, #362,... we regard ourselves in spiritual unity with the secret Church, but
not with the “authorized or official” administration of the Moscow Patriarchate
with ‘Patriarch’ Alexis at its head...We do not recognize Patriarch Alexis as
having jurisdiction over us...”.

1962 - The Soviet Union passes a law in 1962 forbidding minors to enter an Orthodox
Church, while christening and receiving the Eucharist was only allowed in the case of
children under 18 months, and then only if the names of parents and godparents were
registered with the authorities.

Jan 21, 1962 - Patriarch Athenagoras and his entourage pray and liturgize together with
the Armenian Monophyiste Patriarch, Sinork Kaloustian, and his clergy in the latter’s
cathedral of the Holy Trinity in Peran, Armenia.

Dec 1, 1962 - Metropolitan Anastassy and the ROCA Synod issue another statement against
the rising ecumenical movement: “We cannot accept their (the ecumenists’) point
of view, that the Church has become divided. We believe in One, Exclusive Church, the Head of
Which is Christ. As there is one Head, so also is there one Body - the Church. If a house is
divided within itself, then it cannot stand. Thus, also, the Church, having become divided,
would cease to be the Church. There can only be a falling-away from the Church - a departure
from Her of individuals - or of entire groups who are not of like mind with Her.”

1963 - Archbp. Leonty of Chile (Russian Church Abroad), without the blessing of his synod,
travels to Greece, passing through customs as a simple monk. He intends to ordain the
candidates for the G.O.C. with Bishop Akakios (Pappas the elder). The candidates of Akakios
(Pappas the elder) were Auxentios (Pastras), Gerontios (of Salamis), Akakios (Pappas the
younger, who was nephew to Bishop Akakios the elder), Chrysostom (Naslimes), and Chrysostom
(Kiousis). When the candidates were presented to Archb. Leonty, he consented to the
ordination of all except Chrysostom (Kiousis). He is reported as saying, “Not this
person, for he is proud and will hurt the Church.”

1963 - In a letter on the subject of the “Soviet Church”, Archbishop John
(Maximovitch) of San Francisco writes: “The expression ‘Soviet Church’,
however, is not suitable for serious theological discussions. When the entire hierarchy of
South-Western Russia went over to the Unia, the Church continued to exist in the person of
the faithful Orthodox people [who separated from the apostate hierarchs], who after long
sufferings restored their hierarchy. For this reason it is not correct to speak of the
‘Soviet Church’--which is something the ‘Church’ cannot be in the
true sense of the word ‘Church’--but about the hierarchy that acts as the agent
of the Soviet regime. One’s attitude toward this hierarchy may be the same as toward
the other representatives of this [i.e., the Soviet] regime.”

Apr 1963 - Archbp. Iakovos of North and South America states: “The Church cannot be
the sole and full possessor of the truth,” a statement which Ecumenical Patriarch
Athenagoras calls “Orthodox.” Henceforth the two Masons make even more flagrant
anti-Orthodox statements. This statement causes an uproar in Greece and on Mt. Athos.

Jan 6, 1964 - Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras & Pope Paul VI meet in Jerusalem and
pray together in the Holy Sepulchre. Athenagoras remarks: “This is a great and historic
event. My conscience is at peace before God. Orthodoxy means freedom, and it is the free who
make progress.... Dogmas are the power of the Church, her wealth, and for this reason we keep
our wealth in a vault. But this in no way impedes us from minting a new coinage [i.e., new
dogmas] with the other Churches: ‘the coinage of love’.... “ Fire breaks
out while they are in the Sepulchre and causes an electrical blackout throughout the
church.

1964 - Bishop Auxentios (Pastras) is elected Archbishop, since he was the first
consecrated and the senior bishop in rank. Bishop Chrysostomos (Naslimes), along with many of
the Florinites, fear the fitness of Auxentios, who had gone into schism from the G.O.C. in
1937 with Bishop Matthew (Bresthena) and returned in 1950. Auxentios’ future actions
will prove to be a scandal in Greece, to the detriment of the old calendar struggle.

1965 - Serbian Church enters World Council of Churches (WCC).

Apr 1965 - Last testament of Met. Anastassy (Russian Church Abroad) states, “As
regards the Moscow Patriarchate and its hierarchs...the Russian Church Abroad must not have
any canonical, prayerful, or even ordinary communion with them whatsoever.” Met.
Anastassy, “the all-wise” reposes in the Lord and is succeeded by Metro. Philaret
(Voznesensky)

Summer 1965 - Metropolitan Meliton of Chalcedon of the Ecumenical Patriarchate gives an
ecumenical speech at the Protaton on Mt. Athos in which he declares: “It is the spirit
of Lucifer that drives us [the Orthodox] to believe that only we possess the right
way!”

Nov 2, 1965 - Patriarch Athenagoras, visiting Roman Catholics in Milan, asserts: “We
have been seperated for 911 years and now the time has come for us to be found together
again. The Catholics and the Orthodox do not belong to two different Churches, but to two
branches of the same Church.”

Dec 7, 1965 - The Apostasy of World Orthodoxy Completed. Ecumenical
Patriarch Athenagoras & Pope Paul VI simultaneously “lift the Anathema of
1054.” The Anathema was placed on the papal heresy to protect the Orthodox from
blasphemous doctrines which lead to perdition. By “lifting” the Anathema,
Athenagoras officially proclaimed that the Pope and his followers were unjustly
excommunicated, that the Church wrongly held the doctrines of papism to be false, and that in
truth the Latin Papacy is part of Orthodoxy! An official statement from the clergy of the
Patriarchate said the following, “The removal of the mutual excommunications between
the two Churches restores canonical relations between Rome and New Rome. This restoration is
a canonical necessity...” From this time several monasteries and sketes on Mt. Athos
cease to commemorate the Patriarch. The Florinites use the action to again reaffirm their
confession of true Orthodoxy, and to condemn the ecumenism of the Ecumenical Patriarchate.
They again affirm the graceless state of those in the ecumenical heresy, which now is
undeniably true.

Dec 15, 1965 - Met. Philaret (Russian Church Abroad) writes a letter to the Ecumenical
Patriarch protesting his Dec. 7th action. The Russian Church Abroad breaks communion and
stops concelebrating with those confessing ecumenism, in practice treating them as heretics.
The Russian Church Abroad sees “lifting of the Anathema” as the official turning
point and statement of heretical belief in ecumenism, a denial of the Creed in the belief of
the “one, holy catholic and apostolic Church”. From this time until his death,
Met. Philaret will seek to direct his Church in the strictest opposition to this heresy. His
private opinion was that the ecumenists were without grace, yet he could not make this an
official statement due to the opposition of Archbp. Anthony of Geneva. He will, however, as
we shall see, succeed in proclaiming their graceless state by: 1) Breaking communion and
stopping all concelebrations; 2) going into full communion with the Florinites; and, 3)
issuing the Anathema against the ecumenists. Now the Russian Church Abroad and G.O.C. have
the same official practice regarding new calendarists and ecumenists.

June 19, 1966 - Saint John Maximovitch II, Archbishop of Shanghai and San Francisco, of
the Russian Church Abroad, reposes in the Lord in Seattle, WA. He was one of the greatest
wonder-workers of our century.

Oct. 16, 1966 - The miracle-working clairvoyant of the G.O.C., Elder Ieronymos of Aegina,
reposes in the Lord.

July 25, 1967 - Pope Paul VI goes to Constantinople and has joint prayer service with
Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras.

Oct-Nov 1967 - Seeking support for the ecumenical movement, Patriarch Athenagoras visits
the hierarchy of Serbia, Romania, and Bulgaria. He also goes to the WCC in Geneva, and visits
Anglican Archbp. Michael of Canterbury, in London, and they hold joint prayer service
together.

Oct 26, 1967 - Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras goes to Rome and sits on a throne, equal
in stature with the Pope, and they pray together.

Nov 1967 - Majority of monks on Mt. Athos still fiercely oppose the “lifting of the
Anathema of 1054.”

1968 - The WCC meets in Uppsala, Sweden and for the first time, the “Orthodox”
become organic members of this ecumenical organization.

1968 - Archbp. Vitaly of Canada (Russian Church Abroad) makes a statement regarding the
WCC meeting in Uppsala, Sweden, that mocks the Orthodox who attended it and prayed “to
search for the Truth, which we have not known.” He also calls ecumenism the
“heresy of heresies”, in agreement with the 1965 reaction of the Russian Church
Abroad to the “lifting of the Anathema”.

Christmas Epis. 1968 - Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras states that the “Peoples of
Christ”-Roman Catholics and Orthodox are due to reach unity without the hierarchs and
theologians. He also states that he has inserted the name of Pope Paul VI in the diptychs of
the Ecumenical Patriarchate. (The diptychs is the list of Orthodox Bishops who are
commemorated during the holy Liturgy.)

Jan 1969 - Archimandrite Cyprian leaves the New Calendar Greek State Church and joins the
GOC for “reasons purely of faith”, citing the 15th Canon of the First &
Second Council which permits priests to secede and break communion with their bishops for the
“bareheaded”, “preaching of heresy” “condemned by the holy
Councils or Fathers”. The canon calls these bishops “false bishops and false
teachers”. Cyprian accepts the ecclesiology of the GOC. Fifteen years later Cyprian
will cause a schism in the Church, citing the same canon to prove his new opinions that
heretics have grace!

July 1969 - First Sorrowful Epistle. Met. Philaret (Russian Church Abroad) states that a
union of Orthodox with modern ecumenical heretics alienates those Orthodox from the universal
Orthodox unity. Earlier this year he upbraided Archbp. Iakovos for “...your pernicious
ecumenical ventures...of concelebration with the heterodox...which are clearly unorthodox and
in violation of the holy Canons.” These statements are in agreement with the position
of the Russian Church Abroad to the 1965 “lifting of the Anathema”.

Oct and Dec 1969 - Met. Nikodim of Leningrad (Moscow Patriarchate, reportedly a
Major-General in the K.G.B) gives communion to Roman Catholic students at the Russicum in
Rome. The Soviet Moscow Patriarchate gives clergy permission to administer mysteries to Old
Believers and Roman Catholics.

1969 - The Russian Orthodox Church Abroad rules that the Moscow Patriarchate, by sharing
its mysteries with the Latins, has made itself a part of their heresy.

Dec 18/31, 1969 - Met. Philaret, together with his Synod of Bishops of the Russian Church
Abroad, issues a letter to Archbp. Auxentios, (G.O.C.) stating the validity of the Florinites
and confirming that the Russian Church Abroad is in full communion with them. “...We
wish to inform you that the synod of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad recognizes
the validity of the episcopal ordinations of your predecessor of blessed memory, the reposed
Archbishop Akakios [Pappas, the older], and the consequent ordinations of your holy Church.
Hence, taking into account also various other circumstances, our hierarchical synod esteems
your hierarchy as brothers in Christ in full communion with us. May the blessing of God rest
upon all the clergy and faithful of your Church...” This document was signed by
Metropolitan Philaret, with the hierarchs Seraphim, Vitaly, Anthony, Averky, Antony, Sabbas,
Nectary, Andrew, and Laurus.

Feb 1971 - The Pope and Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras exchange letters of mutual
recognition of each one’s Church. Patr. Athenagoras also announces publicly that he
gives “holy” Communion to Roman Catholics and Protestants.

July 1971 - Archbp. Auxentios & Met. Gerontios (Florinites) consecrate four new
bishops. The first was Chrysostom (Kiousis) of Thessalonika. He, it is said, ever since his
rejection by Archb. Leonty in 1963, would call Archb. Auxentios every month and ask for his
elevation! Finally, Archb. Auxentios gave in after 8 years. The others were Kallinikos
(Khaniotes) of Lamia, Paisios (Efthymiades) of Evripos & Evia, and Akakios (Douskos) of
Canada.

September 1/14, 1971 - Firmly denying the Sergianist Synod or falsely-called Moscow
Patriarchate any claim to church power or canonical legitimacy, the Council of Bishops of the
ROCOR passes the following “Resolution Concerning the Election of Pimen Izvekov as
Patriarch of Moscow” concerning “the gathering which, calling itself an
All-Russian Church Council, met in Moscow from May 30 to June 2 of this year for the purpose
of electing a Patriarch of Moscow and all Russias”:

“All of the elections of Patriarchs in Moscow, beginning in 1943, are without effect
on the basis of the 30th Canon of the Holy Apostles and the 3rd Canon of the 7th Ecumenical
Council, [which declare ‘null and void” any appointment to episcopal control over
the church by secular authorities, rather than by free election by church authorities - i.e.,
the full synod of bishops of the local church -, deposing the appointee from any prior
clerical office and excommunicating all who commune with any such secular
appointee]”

Sept 17, 18, 1971 - The Matthewite schismatics seek correction of their uncanonical
status. They enter into communion with the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad. In Boston the
Russian Church Abroad hierarchs, Archbp. Philotheos of Germany and Constantinos of Australia,
performed the “cheirothesia” (laying on of hands with prayers of correction) upon
Matthewite hierarchs Met. Kallistos of Corinth & Met. Epiphanios of Kition. On returning
to Greece, these two bishops were to perform the same prayer to their brother hierarchs, as
was part of the conditions set forth by the Russian Church Abroad for the corrections of the
Matthewite bishops who were ordained by one bishop. The Matthewite bishops in Greece,
however, changed their minds and refused to have these prayers read over them.

1971 - Second Sorrowful Epistle. Synod of Bishops of the Russian Church Abroad warns all
Orthodox bishops on earth that ecumenism is a “dangerous heresy.” This is in
agreement with the 1965 reaction to “lifting of the Anathema.”

July 1972 - Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras dies and is buried; a closed-coffin funeral.
He will be remembered for illegally lifting the Anathema of 1054 against the heresy of the
Papacy, as being a moving force of the heresy of Ecumenism and for admitting to giving
communion to Roman Catholics, Protestants, and the Archbishop of Canterbury. He is succeeded
by Demetrios (33rd degree mason, mother lodge of Turkey, member of Greekophone lodges
“Houlous” & “Hakikat”). His enthronement speech is purely
ecumenical, addressing the Pope of Rome as the leader of Christendom. He promises to continue
the ecumenical policies of Athenagoras.

July 1972 - Sacred Community (non-Zealot monks) of the Holy Mountain issues encyclical to
resume commemorating the Ecumenical Patriarch because a “new climate has been
established”! Zealot monks of Mt. Athos still do not commemorate Ecumenical Patriarch
and follow the Florinites. By September seven sacred monasteries on Mt. Athos, composed of
Zealot monks, still do not commemorate the Ecumenical Patriarch: Esphigmenon, Karakallou,
Simonopetra, St. Paul’s, Xenophontos, Grigoriou, Kostamonitou.

June 1974 - The Florinites issue an encyclical to all their clergy reaffirming their
position on communion and chrismation with regard to the new calendar State Church,
declaring, “The ministration of the Holy Gifts to the new calendarists has been
forbidden since the beginning of the schism of the official Church; and you must observe this
line of conduct unswervingly...” and that those joining the G.O.C. from the new
calendarists “must be chrismated with Holy Chrism of canonical origin, in accordance
with the first Canon of St. Basil the Great.” All the Florinite clergy accepted this
confession of the Faith and reaffirmation of their practice, including Abbot Cyprian of the
monastery in Fili.

Sept 1974 - The sacred monastery of Esphigmenou remains the only non-commemorating
monastery on Mt. Athos. They are threatened by special forces sent by the Ecumenists. All 60
monks resist, and drape a black flag over the wall of the monastery which read,
“Orthodoxy or Death”. They receive ordinations from and follow the Florinite
bishops.

1974 - Citing Archbp. Auxentios’ (Florinite) continual consecrations without his
synod’s approval, three Bishops separate from that synod: Chrysostomos (Kiousis) of
Thessalonika, Akakios (Pappas, the younger) of Diavlia, and Gabriel of Cyclades. The 3
bishops do NOT cause a schism by forming a new synod, but separate from Auxentios, so as not
to partake with him in the sins of ordaining men (as priests and bishops) whose worthiness is
not confirmed. Auxentios will continue to cause havoc in the ranks of the Florinites by
consecrating unworthy men.

Chrysostom (Kiousis) will continue to denounce Archbp. Auxentios and his Synod until 1985.
All requests by Auxentios to Chrysostom to appear before the Holy Synod to express his
criticism and try to solve any problems, prove fruitless. Chrysostom will only remain aloof
and criticize.

1975 - The Thyateira Confession, by Greek new calendarist Met. Athenagoras (Kokkinakis) of
Thyateira and Great Britain, proclaims that the episcopacy and priesthood of the
Anglicans,

Copto-Armenians, Roman Catholics and Orthodox are all true; and, therefore, the sacraments
of the Anglicans & Roman Catholics are those of the one, holy, catholic and apostolic
Church!

This confession is officially endorsed by Ecumenical Patriarch Demetrios; this confession
also states, “The idea that Masonry is a religion is mistaken”!

Feb 1976 - Matthewites break communion with the Russian Church Abroad, because they cannot
obtain a letter of condemnation from them (saying that the new calendarists are schismatics
and without grace in their mysteries), and because Archbishop Anthony of Genevea continued to
concelebrate with new calendarists, in disobedience to the ROCA Synod. Therefore, the
Matthewites assume that the Russian Church Abroad accepts the unorthodox idea that heretical
ecumenical “Orthodox” Churches have grace. They also reinterpret the 1971
“laying on of hands” by the Russian Church Abroad upon the Matthewites, as the
Matthewites bringing the Russian Church Abroad out of schism, for they say that from 1924 to
1971, the Russian Church Abroad was schismatic. Later, they blaspheme by officially
repudiating and renouncing their 1971 hierothesia from the Russian Church Abroad.

July 1977 - Met. Kallistos leaves Matthewites and joins the Florinites, out of frustration
with the Matthewites for their radical positions and for not complying with the Russian
Church Abroad conditions of Sept. 1971.

June 30, 1978 - Archb. Andrew Rymarenko of Novo-Diveyevo reposes in the Lord on his name
day. He was the last of the Optina clairvoyant elders, being a disciple of the New Martyr,
Saint Nectarios of Optina.

1978 - Archbp. Auxentios (Florinite) ordains with Synodal approval Archm. Evthymios as
bishop in Thessalonika to minister to the faithful of the G.O.C. in that, the second largest
city of Greece. The faithful now have representation in the Synod in Athens. All the G.O.C.
churches in Thessalonika receive him as their bishop, except the church of Metropolitan
Chrysostom (Kiousis), who separated himself from the Synod in 1974. Thessalonika has two
bishops, one legitimate, Metr. Evthymios, and one a renegade, Metr. Chrysostom (Kiousis).

1978 - Archbp. Auxentios (Florinite), without his synod’s approval, consecrates as a
bishop the Russian priest Gabriel of the Russian Church Abroad, under Archbp. Anthony of
Geneva, as Bishop of Lisbon, Portugal. Relations cool between Archbp. Auxentios and Russian
Church Abroad over this consecration.

1978 - During an official audience with the newly elected Pope John Paul I, the
arch-ecumenist Met. Nikodim of Leningrad (Moscow Patriarchate) collapses and dies at the feet
of the Pope, from whom he received his “last rites”! It is later learned that
Nikodim had espoused Roman Catholicism secretly.

Feb 1979 - Archbp. Auxentios considers more candidates to the bishopric, and rejects those
put forth by Met. Gerontios of Salamis. When Archm. Cyprian learns that he is not considered
by either Auxentios or Gerontios, he incites Met. Kallistos of Corinth and Met. Anthony of
Megara to ordain bishops on their own authority and start a separate Synod.

Feb 1979 - Kallistos of Corinth and Anthony of Megara, without prior knowledge of their
Archbp. Auxentios, consecrate the following eight archimandrites: Cyprian of Fili, Maximos,
Kallinikos of Achaia, Matthew, Germanos, Kalliopios, Mercurios, and another Kallinikos of the
Twelve Islands. These ordinations were performed without announcement. At least two of the
archimandrites Maximos and Kallinikos of the Twelve Islands were told that the consecrations
were duly approved by Archbp. Auxentios. After the ordinations were completed, Bp. Cyprian of
Fili announced the supposed reason for starting the new synod. It was for the cleansing of
the Church from the influence of Archbp. Auxentios. Now with the emergence of the uncanonical
Kallistite Synod, there are two synods in Greece having the same ecclesiology. Later in 1983,
Kallistos will feel betrayed when Cyprian preaches his new teaching of grace with the new
calendarists and ecumenists, and because of his policy of giving them holy Communion at his
monastery. The Kallistite Synod will eventually collapse.

March 9, 1979 - Orthodox Typos, the Greek ecclesiastical newspaper, announces the
deposition of the ten Kallistite bishops by Archbp. Auxentios for factionalism and
uncanonical ordinations. Most of the bishops will eventually return to Archbp. Auxentios, be
accepted back into their orders, and be numbered among the Auxentios synod of the G.O.C. Met.
Kallistos will retire in repentance in his monastery in Corinth until his last day. Met.
Cyprian will be the only bishop who will not return.

October 1/14 1979 - The feast of the Holy Protection of the Most Holy Theotokos - The holy
monastery of Dormition Skete is officially established with the blessing of Archbishop
Saraphim of Chicago and Midwestern America, of the Russian Orthodox Church outside of Russia.
The Archbishop agrees to ordain Schemamonk Father Gregory a deacon on December 23 the Feast
of St. Naum the Enlightener of Bulgaria, and priest on the Sunday of All Saints of Russia,
the following year.

1980 - Archimandrite Mark (Arndt) is consecrated bishop in Germany (Russian Church
Abroad). A German convert who was tonsured a monk only five years earlier was received into
the Russian Church Abroad, without baptism, from Protestantism. Archbishop Mark becomes the
highest-ranking unbaptized clergyman in the Russian Church Abroad!

1982 - The Matthewite Synod again renounces the 1971 prayers of correction (cheirothesia),
performed over two of their bishops in Boston.

May 1982 - Patriarch Parthenios of Alexandria (the Mason) openly stated that Islam is a
great religion of the great God and His apostle [is] Mohammed!

1983-1985 - “Kallistite Synod” reunifications: gradually Antonios of Megara,
Maximos, Germanos, Kallinikos, Matthew, Kalliopios, and another Kallinikos return and are
accepted back into the synod of Archbp. Auxentios (Florinite). Kallistos retires to his
brother’s monastery and reposes there in the Lord. Thus, as we shall see, the synod
that started in 1979 is now reunited with the synod of Archbp. Auxentios, with one exception,
Cyprian, whose ambition will cause yet more harm to the Church.

Summer 1983 - World Council of Churches has service at an Assembly in Vancouver, Canada,
attended by the following representatives: Orthodox, Catholics, Protestants of every sect,
Jews, Mohammedans, Buddhists, Hindus, shamans, medicine men, and warlocks. At the previous
conference in Lima, Peru, the WCC states that the baptism, eucharist, and ordinations of all
denominations are valid and acceptable.

July/Aug 1983 - Synod of Bishops of the Russian Church Abroad, at a meeting in Canada,
declares: TO THOSE who attack the Church of Christ by teaching that Christ’s Church is
divided into so-called “branches” which differ in doctrine and way of life, or
that the Church does not exist visibly, but will be formed in the future when all
“branches” or sects or denominations, and even religions will be united into one
body; and who do not distinguish the priesthood and mysteries of the Church from those of the
heretics, but say that the baptism and eucharist of heretics is effectual for salvation;
therefore, to those who knowingly have communion with these aforementioned heretics or who
advocate, disseminate, or defend their new heresy of ecumenism under the pretext of brotherly
love or the supposed unification of separated Christians, ANATHEMA. (Anathema means a
complete cutting off from God and separation from the Church and consignment to the devil.)
This is consistent with the 1965 reaction of Russian Church Abroad to the “lifting of
Anathema of 1054” by Athenagoras.

1984 - Bp. Kallistos Ware of England, under the Ecumenical Patriarchate, confirms in
writing that he gives communion to Monophysite heretics.

Jan 20, 1984 - Met. Cyprian of Fili is publicly accused by Orthodox Typos (the major
religious newspaper of Greece) of accepting hundreds of new calendarists at his monastery,
and of praying with them & giving them communion, a practice which Old Calendarists were
forbidden to do.

1984 - Met. Cyprian of Fili causes confusion among the remaining Old Calendar bishops of
his synod, because he now believes the new calendarists have grace (several years before, he
confessed the opposite). Thus, after the Kallistite synod reunifications were complete, there
remained only two: Giovanni, who felt no affinity with the Florinites, and Cyprian of Fili,
who alienates himself from his synod and all other Old Calendar bishops in Greece because of
his novel teaching of “Holy Heretics”-heretical ecumenists, who can call down the
grace of the Holy Spirit upon their altars to sanctify their mysteries.

June 1984 - The Florinite Archbp. Auxentios (Pastras) & Bishop Gabriel (Lisbon),
against the objections of 2 clerics present, consecrate Iakovos of Portugal to be Assistant
Bishop to Gabriel.

Oct 1984 - With the blessings of Archbp. Auxentios, the Portuguese Bishops Gabriel &
Iakovos consecrate as bishops one Portuguese and two Italians. One of the Italians, Grigorios
of Aquileia, was a papist, then a Methodist, then a Benedictine monk and papist priest, then
in 1944 a Mussolini-worshipping fascist, and after the death of Mussolini, a member of the
Moscow Patriarchate. Also in agreement with these consecrations were Bishops: Gerasimos of
Thebes, Maximos of Kephallonia, Germanos of Aiolia, Athanasios of Larissa.

1985-1990 - Mikhail Gorbachev introduces the reforms of Glasnost and Perestroika and
begins the USSR’s devolution, which culminates in December of 1991.

1985 - The Florinite bishops now number 17 with the return of the Kallistite synod.
Cyprian and Giovanni remain separate from the bishops of their synod, and hastily ordain
Niphon of Kenya, and Chrysostomos of Etna (USA), both believed to be of questionable
character. Later, Niphon is deposed for reportedly having 10 wives! Cyprian is then elected
president of their synod, calling his church the “Genuine Orthodox Christians of
Greece” (same title as the Florinites), and then the True Orthodox Church (T.O.C.), a
synod of “Resisters” with a “new” theology on grace. He regards
himself as being the only hierarch in Greece who has a correct confession of faith! He
demands all his followers to call him and refer to him as “THE FATHER”!

1985 - Archbp. Mark (Russian Church Abroad) of Germany visits Mt. Athos and commemorates
Patriarch Demetrios in the Liturgy at the Serbian Monastery of Hilandar. When he returns to
the Skete of Prophet Elias that day, the monks refuse to kiss his hand. Archbishop Mark was
not reprimanded nor corrected by the Russian Church Abroad.

July 1985 - “The Tsakos Affair.” Former new calendarist priest Dorotheos
(Tsakos) (deposed by new calendarists for homosexuality) was consecrated as “Met. of
Sparta and all the Peloponnese” after Pascha 1985 by Met. Maximos of Kephallonia &
Met. Gerasimos of Thebes, on the orders of Archbp. Auxentios (Pastras). When this was denied
by the ordaining bishops, an investigating committee was formed to find the truth.

Oct. 22, 1985 - The Florinite Holy Synod DEPOSED the offending bishops of the
“Tsakos Affair”: Archbishop Auxentios, Metropolitans Gerasimos of Thebes and
Maximos of Kephallonia, and two others for consecrating Tsakos, lying to the Synod, and
creating a schism. This was the result of the hearings in the investigation which started
July 6/19, 1985. The Florinite synod finally takes action against its president and removes
Auxentios, who becomes a scandal and a reproach to the G.O.C. His legacy of unworthy
consecrations will continue to harm the Church for years to come.

Nov 1985 - The righteous confessor, Met. Philaret, “the Confessor”, of the
Russian Church Abroad, foreknowing his departure, reposes in the Lord and is given the
traditional open-coffin funeral for a hierarch. Archbp. Vitaly of Canada is chosen
Metropolitan of the Russian Church Abroad.

Jan 1986 - The G.O.C. Synod asks Chrysostomos (Kiousis) to be enthroned as Archbp. of
Athens, and head of the holy synod. Met. Petros (Astoria) joins the synod. This was done, not
because the bishops saw in Chrysostom (Kiousis) any ability which surpassed the others, or
that they saw any outstanding virtue. It was done to solve Thessalonika’s dilemma of
having two bishops in one see. Metropolitans Akakios (Diavlia) & Gabriel (Cyclades)
remain aloof.

Nov 1986 - Archbp. Chrysostomos (Kiousis) and the Florinite synod depose Met. Cyprian of
Oropos and Fili, together with the bishops consecrated by him for: 1) teaching that the new
calendarist ecumenists have the grace of the Holy Spirit in their mysteries; 2) giving
communion to new calendarists & ecumenists; and 3) going into schism and creating their
own synod in Greece (taking the same name as the G.O.C. and thereby causing confusion among
the people.) Before his deposition Cyprian was summoned three times to answer for his
actions. He refused to appear, stating that the Florinites, the bishops who had ordained him,
had no authority over him! He now begins a campaign to vilify the true Holy Synod of bishops
by calling them extremists (for their true confession of the Faith).

Nov 1986 - Archbp. Mark attacks in writing the book The Teachings of the Holy Orthodox
Church, printed by Dormition Skete with the blessing of Met. Vitaly. It was reviewed and
accepted by both Met. Vitaly and Bp. Gregory (Grabbe) of New York. Archbp. Mark does not
accept the Orthodox rejection of Augustine and his heresies.

Dec 1986 - Due to the accusations made by six monks of homosexual conduct against Abbot
Panteleimon (Metropoulos) and the clergy of Holy Transfiguration Monastery (Boston), the
Russian Church Abroad suspends the abbot and three other clergymen. In December, while the
investigations were still in progress, and suspensions still in force, the monastery flees
the Russian Church Abroad. It joins the independent Metropolitans Akakios (Diavlia) &
Gabriel (Cyclades) and unites them to form another synod in Greece. The monastery persuades
many parishes of the Russian Church Abroad to join them in their departure, accusing the
Russian Church of ecumenism! The Russian Church Abroad deposes Archimandrite Panteleimon
(Metropoulos) and all the clergymen who follow him. The monastery does not seek to join the
Florinites because the G.O.C. is in communion with the Russian Church Abroad, and their
rejection would be certain.

1987 - Archbp. Mark, without permission of Met Vitaly, starts visiting Greece yearly to
concelebrate with the deposed Met. Cyprian of Fili. He is not reproved.

1987 - A “binding directive” of the Synod of Bishops of the Russian Church
Abroad to all its clergy and members, reaffirming its policy that their Church does NOT
concelebrate with new calendarists or ecumenists. Signed by Archbp. Laurus, Secretary.

1987 - Due to the overwhelming amount of disturbing evidence of moral misconduct at Holy
Transfiguration Monastery (Boston), Met. Akakios (Diavlia) & Met. Gabriel (Cyclades)
abandon it. The monastery petitions the deposed “Archbp.” Auxentios (Pastras),
and he receives those who were deposed by the very people who ordained him! Auxentios
(Pastras), who received the homosexual Dorotheos (Tsakos), now receives the homosexual Abbot
Panteleimon (Metropoulos).

Nov 1987 - Ecumenical Patriarch Demetrios and his clergy concelebrate a papal mass with
Pope John Paul II in Rome.

Nov 1, 1988 - Glorification by the Russian Church Abroad of the New-Martyrs of Russia who
suffered under the communist yoke. An estimated 15,000,000 new martyrs for Christ and His
Church.

1988 - Archbp. Mark (Russian Church Abroad) gives permission to his Hieromonk Theodore to
live on the Holy Mountain Athos and to commemorate the Ecumenical Patriarch Demetrios during
his Liturgies. He also sends his Deacon Agapit to Athos for an extended visit to the
Monastery of Xeropotamou, where he concelebrates and commemorates the Ecumenical Patriarch
Demetrios. This action is not reprimanded or corrected by Metropolitan Vitaly or the Russian
Church Abroad.

Sept 1989 - Met. Pitirim of Volokalamsk (Moscow Patriarchate) declares that he will
publish the Koran for the followers of Islam in Russia.

Oct 1989 - Pat. Parthenios of Alexandria again declares that “Mohammed is an Apostle
of God...a man of God, who worked for the Kingdom of God”...that “when I speak
against Islam or Buddhism, then I am not found in agreement with God.”

December 1989 - Communism ends in the Soviet Union. The official end of the Cold War. The
Soviet Union becomes Russia.

Early 1990 - The Russian Church Abroad reveals that it has already established a hierarchy
in Russia in order to receive churches from the Moscow Patriarchate. The ROCA publicly states
that, unbeknownst to the authorities, one of her bishops, authorized by the Synod, managed to
enter the USSR and consecrated catacomb priest Fr. Lazarus (Zhurbenko) to the episcopate
secretly in Moscow in 1982.

March 25, 1990 - The parish of St. Constantine the Great in Suzdal, Vladimir Province,
under Archimandrite Valentine (Rusantsov), becomes the first parish to leave the Moscow
Patriarchate and join the ROCA.

June 8/21, 1990 - Feast of St. Theodore, enlightener of Suzdal. ROCA hierarchs Hilarion of
Manhattan, Mark of Berlin, and Lazarus of Tambov with Archimandrite Valentine and his clergy
concelebrate the first hierarchal liturgy under the ROCA at St. Constantine parish.

July 1990 - Bishop Lazarus of Tambov complains about the interference of Mark of Berlin in
the Russian Territory. Mark pays no heed, and ordains priests for Russia as if Russia belongs
to the German Diocese. His uncanonical actions are not reproved by Met. Vitaly.

Sept 1990 - THE CHAMBESY AGREEMENT: Ecumenical “World” Orthodoxy and
Monophysites sign the “Chambesy Agreement” in which both sides essentially agree
to IGNORE THE LAST FOUR ECUMENICAL SYNODS and unite. The “Orthodox” agreed to
“lift the Anathemas” against the Monophysite heretics and heresy!

1991 - Russia becomes “independent” as the communist Soviet State collapses
and, together with Ukraine and Belarus, forms the Commonwealth of Independent States.

1991 - Ecumenical Patriarch Demetrios dies and is buried in a closed-coffin ceremony. He
is succeeded by Bartholomeos of Chalcedon.

July 1991 - Synod of the Antiochian Patriarchate implements a series of measures aimed at
achieving full union with the Monophysite Syriac Churches. In their “Agreed
Statement”, they allow joint prayer and intercommunion with the Jacobites. The
Monophysites are heretical Christian bodies who separated from Orthodoxy in the 5th century,
not accepting the 4th and all subsequent Ecumenical Synods of the Orthodox Church. They
believe only in the divine nature of Christ.

July 1991 - The Florinite synod, (G.O.C.) makes a statement against the Chambesy
Agreement, that those shepherds who signed it and their flocks are Monophysites, not
Orthodox. They have on their heads the Anathemas of the ecumenical synods, and they are
outside the Church, outside of salvation, and their portion is with that of all the heretics.
Russian Church Abroad and Zealot monks of Mount Athos voice similar disapproval of Chambesy
Agreement.

1992 - Russian Church Abroad, (Met. Vitaly) goes into communion with the Romanian Synod of
Resistors who are in communion with Metr. Cyprian. (What the outcome of this union would
accomplish was uncertain at the time. Would it lead to the breaking of communion of the
Romanians with Cyprian, or would it lead to the ROCOR’s union with Cyprian? As time
showed, this was the first step towards union with Cyprian, although there was never an
official statement on the part of ROCOR that the Romanian ecclesiology was identical to
ROCOR’s.

March 1992 - A “World Orthodox” Conference meets in Constantinople and
reaffirms its commitment to ecumenism and makes threats against “schismatics”-
the Russian Church Abroad and the G.O.C. of Greece.

May 1992 - A delegation from the Ecumenical Patriarch, with the help of state police,
expels from Mt. Athos the Russian-American monks of the Russian Church Abroad from the Skete
of Prophet Elias, who do not commemorate Patriarch Bartholomeos.

Oct 1992 - Pat. Paul of Serbia is received by Archbp. Anthony of San Francisco (Russian
Church Abroad) in the Russian Cathedral with full patriarchal honors. Met. Vitaly does not
reprove Archbp. Anthony.

Jan 9, 1993 - Pat. Bartholomew sends greetings to the Pope of Rome on the occasion of a
special prayer meeting in honor of Francis of Assisi, stating, “...it is most needful
for us to participate in this prayer, the more so since it was announced that it is to take
place under the spiritual patronage of St. Francis, the great saint of this land...”
Pat. Pavel of Serbia also added, “You have informed us that participating in this
gathering for prayer will be bishops and other prominent representatives of the Roman
Catholic Church throughout all Europe, representatives of other Christian Churches and
confessions in Europe, as well as representatives of Islam and other great religions. We
sincerely rejoice that this joint prayer will take place in Assisi, the homeland of that
righteous one and true servant of God [Francis], whose spiritual legacy and teachings have
made him an apostle of humility, repentance, peace and love. He has built a genuine bridge
between the Christians of the West and East”!!!

April 14/27, 1993 - Archbishop Lazarus wrote to the Synod that on the basis of ukaz no.
362 of his Holiness Patriarch Tikhon he considered the decisions of the Synod to be not
obligatory for execution for the True Orthodox Catacomb Church’. But, he insisted, he
was not breaking communion with the ROCA. As a result of this, without consulting either him
or his diocese, the ROCA retired him, and the administration of his parishes was transferred
to Metropolitan Vitaly.

May 1993 - Bishop Gregory (Grabbe) reports to the ROCA Synod on the continuing uncanonical
actions of Archb. Mark of Berlin and Bishop Barnabas of Cannes outside of their diocesan
boundaries, namely in Russia. The report states that despite the chaos created by these
bishops, Bishop Valentine has added 63 parishes to his diocese, and estimates that he now has
20,000 faithful. Ignoring the canonical rights, and even the existence, of the Russian
bishops, Bishop Barnabas of Cannes, France, demands and is refused the right to administer
all parishes of the Free Church in Russia. Furthermore, he is censured for his scandalous
incompetence evidenced in his fraternal letter to the Locum Tenens of the totally uncanonical
and self-ordained Kievan Patriarchate in the name of the ROCA. In view of the ROCA’s
legal battle with the MP, Barnabas writes that “we beseech you, Your Eminence, through
the Kievan Patriarchate headed by you, to give our ecclesiastical activity a juridical base
and receive us into brotherly communion.” Although Bishop Gregory Grabbe appealed for
Barnabas’ deposition, the Synod ultimately only suspended him and removed him for a
time to Jerusalem.

June 1993 - Due to the continual incompetence of Met. Vitaly in administrating the
churches in Russia from New York City, the Suzdal diocese decides to emulate Bishop
Lazarus’ actions earlier that year by establishing a temporary administration separate
from the ROCA, yet still in communion with her.

June 17-24, 1993 - The Balamand Union is drawn up wherein the Patriarchates of
Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, Moscow, with several other “local Orthodox
Churches” agree with the Roman Catholics that they share, “...one faith, one
priesthood, one baptism” and that “they are sister Churches, (two lungs of the
same body) and should search for perfect and total communion”!!!

March 1994 - At the Suzdal diocesan congress, it is resolved to establish a
“Temporary Higher Church Administration” (THCA). During the THCA congress, Bishop
Valentine is raised to the rank of Archbishop, and three new bishops are consecrated: Bishop
Theodore of Borisovskoye and Sanino, Bishop Seraphim of Sukhumi, and Bishop Agathangelus of
Simferopol. The congresses expresses its desire for the ROCA Synod to recognize THCA and the
consecrations it performs. In other resolutions, the congress decides to continue
commemorating in Divine services Metropolitan Vitaly, with whom they wish to maintain
communion of prayer.

March 1994 - Archbp. Mark of Germany (Russian Church Abroad) travels to Serbia and
concelebrates on the Feast of the Annunciation with Serbian hierarchs, among whom was the
notorious ecumenist, Bishop Lavrenty. This act was not reprimanded or corrected by the
Russian Church Abroad.

July 1994 - Russian Church Abroad unites with the deposed Ecumenist Met. Cyprian of Fili
and his “Synod of Resisters,” against the stated wishes of Metropolitan Vitaly,
who accepts the consensus of his bishops. He promises, however, not to concelebrate with
Cyprian. In justifying this union, the Russian Church Abroad now affirms that Cyprian’s
theology is identical to its own, thereby affirming that the Ecumenists are part of the
Church and have true Mysteries! Metropolitan Vitaly promises Archimandrite Gregory of
Dormition Skete that he (Metropolitan Vitaly) will never concelebrate and consummate the
union with Cyprian, and urges him not to leave the ROCA. Archimandrite Gregory believes Met.
Vitaly and remains.

Nov. 1994 - Bishop Valentine prepares a protest against the union with Cyprian of Fili for
the Lesna Sobor. However, the ROCA Synod, through the person of Archbishop Mark of Berlin,
insults Bishop Valentine and orders him to be silent. The Sobor then proceeds to divide the
dioceses in Russia into six new boundaries. The implementation of such a decision, which
requires reregistering with the government, would guarantee the loss of all Church property
to the Moscow Patriarchate. The Russian clergy refuse.

Nov. 1994 - The G.O.C. breaks communion with the Russian Church Abroad because of the
union with the deposed Ecumenist Cyprian, but only after the G.O.C. sent the Cyprian
deposition papers to the Russian Synod meeting in Lesna, France, and received no reply.

1995 - Abp. Lazarus, with Bishops Benjamin and Agafangel, came back to ROCOR, and
communion with the heretic Cyprian, while three bishops, with Abp. Valentine at the head did
not. In May 1995 the long-term secretary of the Synod of Bishops of ROCOR, the famous church
historian and canonist, Bishop Gregory (Grabbe), visited Suzdal. He approved the decisions of
the Russian bishops to withdraw from administrative subordination to the ROCOR synod just
before he passed away. This was due to his belief that they were following the
“true” historical course of ROCOR.

Abp. Lazarus remained part of the Russian Church Abroad under the leadership of Metr.
Vitaly and in communion with the heretical Cyprianite Synod until 2003, when he broke
communion with the ROCOR, now headed by Metr. Laurus, and united himself to Metr.
Vitaly’s new Synod, styled the Russian Orthodox Church in Exile, or ROCOR (V).

1995 - Archbp. Mark (ROCA) meets Pat. Alexei II of the Moscow Patriarchate in Munich,
Germany. This is done without the knowledge of Met. Vitaly and violates the testament of Met.
Anastassy of 1965. Met. Vitaly does not reprove or correct Archb. Mark.

March 12, 1995 - Archbishops Lazarus and Valentine meet in Suzdal with Bishops
Agathangelus, Seraphim and Theodore to re-establish the THCA, first formed on March 5/18,
1994. They also agree that the ROCA Synod’s action constitutes a
“transgression” of the Holy Canons, and the ROCA Statute: specifically, a
violation of the Eighth Canon of the Third Ecumenical Council.

June 1995 - The re-established THCA resolves to form a permanent independent synod. By
1996, the ROAC will be officially established.

June 29, 1995 - Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomeos visits the Pope in Rome, and
“concelebrates an historic liturgy in Saint Peter’s Basilica.” Lighting
strikes the dome during the service.

July 1995 - This year the G.O.C. experiences a schism. Archb. Chrysostom (Kiousis)
abandons the Synod offices which are based at 32 Kaniggos Street, and establishes his own
place of operation. The following six bishops: Kallinikos (Khaniotes) of Lamia, Evthymios of
Thessalonika, Paisios of New York, Vikentios of New York, Stephanos of Chios, and Ioustinos
of Evia, remain together, and give the presidency to Kallinikos of Lamia. The Archbishop left
with his followers, so he could maintain total control over the Church funds (Philoptocos).
The only way to accomplish this, was to separate from the above six bishops who would object.
It is then learned that he had established another GOC shadow corporation without the
knowledge of the other bishops.

Aug 1995 - Mets. Paisios and Vikentios express ecumenical ideas in an interview in the
National Herald Greek newspaper.

1995 - Archbp. Anthony of San Francisco (Russian Church Abroad) with his clergy
concelebrate at the Serbian Cathedral in San Francisco. He is not reprimanded or corrected by
Metropolitan Vitaly or the Russian Church Abroad.

1965-1995 - Archbps. Mark of Germany, Anthony of Geneva, Anthony of San Francisco, and
Laurus of Holy Trinity Monastery (Russian Church Abroad) maintain the policy of communing
members of the ecumenical jurisdictions in their dioceses. This unauthorized policy is not
corrected by Metropolitan Vitaly according to the rules of Russian Church Abroad.

Dec 1995 - Met. Vitaly of the Russian Church Abroad concelebrates at the Divine Liturgy
with the deposed Ecumenist Met. Cyprian of Fili in New York City. Thus, he consummates the
union with Cyprian and his synod of “Resisters.” This causes the Archimandrite
Gregory, the monastery of Dormition Skete, and Holy Apostles Convent to break communion with
the ROCA. ROCA is now considered fallen from Orthodoxy.

Dec 1995 - Met. Paisios and Vikentios were expelled from the G.O.C. of the Synod of Met.
Kallinikos of Lamia and excommunicated, because they would not repent of their interview in
the National Herald.

Feb 1996 - The Monasteries of Dormition Skete and Holy Apostles Convent in Colorado who
left the Russian Church Abroad because of the union with Cyprian of Fili, join the G.O.C.
under Chrysostom (Kiousis), not knowing all the necessary information, yet believing that
Chrysostom (Kiousis) and Kallinikos of Lamia would reunite.

Jan 1997 - Archbp. Mark, for the second time, without the knowledge, blessing or
permission of Met. Vitaly, meets Pat. Alexei II of Moscow in Moscow. They greet each other as
hierarchs. They discuss their Church relations!

July 5, 1997 - Archbp. Anthony (ROCA) of San Francisco concelebrates liturgy with Serbian
Bishop Ioann and his clergy at Russian Cathedral in San Francisco. This action is not
corrected by Metropolitan Vitaly.

July 1997 - The Moscow Patriarchate seizes the ROCA monastery of the Holy Trinity in
Hebron, Israel. The ROCA is shocked!

July 31, 1997 - Synod of Bishops of ROCA makes an official statement saying that they are
in eucharistic communion with the Jerusalem Patriarchate, and that the Moscow Patriarchate
and ROCA constitute “two parts of the one Church of Russia.”

July 14, 1997 - Met. Kallinikos of the Twelve islands, of the Synod of Archbishop
Chrysostom (Kiousis) publishes in Apostolic and Patristic Voice a letter from Archimandrite
Gregory of Dormition Skete in which caution was advised in considering Archimandrite Paul
(Stratigeas) for ordination to the episcopacy. The letter cited Fr. Paul’s many
betrayals of Orthodoxy and his policy of giving holy Communion to ecumenists for the sake of
monetary donations.

Oct 1997 - Brother Jose Muñoz is murdered and his myrhh-streaming icon of the Virgin Mary
completely disappears. The ROCA is shocked!

Dec 1997 - The zealot monks of Esphigmenou Monastery on Mt. Athos issue a warning to
Archbp. Chrysostom that if Archm. Paul, the ecumenist, is ordained, they will break communion
with him.

Jan 24, 1997 - The ROCA Saint Nicholas Cathedral in Montreal, the episcopal seat of the
First Hierarch, Metropolitan Vitaly, burns to the ground, destroying irreplaceable relics,
icons and vestments from the by-gone centuries of Holy Russia. The ROCA is shocked!

Feb 26, 1998 - The Synod of Archbishop Chrysostom (Kiousis) semi-clandestinely, by not
informing the priests and laity, ordains the notorious Archm. Paul (Stratigeas) of Astoria to
the episcopacy. The ordination takes place within one week of his “election”. He
was under accusation for distributing the holy Mysteries to new calendarists and therefore
having the same ecclesiology as Cyprian of Fili.

March 1998 - The Synod of Kallinikos of Lamia breaks all relations with
‘Archbishop’ Chrysostom (Kiousis) and his Synod, because of the consecration of
the Ecumenist Paul of Astoria. The new abbot of the Holy Monastery of Esphigmenon remains
with Chrysostom (Kiousis).

May 1998 - Mets. Paisios and Vikentios of New York join the Greek Ecumenical Patriarchate,
and are received by Pat. Bartholomeos of Constantinople by chrismation and then ordained
deacons, priests, and bishops! They are placed under Archbp. Spyridon of North and South
America, with permission to follow the Old Calendar. Their reason for joining the ecumenical
new calendar Church was that, according to Vikentios, “There was no future for us here
in Astoria, remaining with the Old Calendar Church of Greece”!

November 3/16, 1998 - The incorrupt relics of the holy hierarch St. Met. Philaret of New
York (Russian Church Abroad) were revealed.

Sunday of Orthodoxy 1999 - The ROAC Synod declared: “A resolution was passed
concerning the hierarchs and representatives of the clergy of the Moscow Patriarchate who
received their rank through the mediation of the authorities and organs of State Security. In
relation to such it was decided that every year on the Sunday of Orthodoxy ANATHEMA should be
proclaimed, using the following text: ‘If any bishops, making use of secular bosses
[“nachal nikov”], have seized power in the Church of God and enslaved Her, let
those and those who aid them and those who communicate with them without paying heed to the
reproaches of the Law of God, be ANATHEMA.” This effectively anathematizes the whole
Sergianist Church and those in communion with her since all its hierarchs had to hand-picked
and approved by the Fifth directorate of the KGB (Russian Orthodox Church Affairs) and agree
to be security and espionage agents for that agency.

Feb 1999 - Archm. Gregory and those with him join the Synod of Met. Kallinikos of Lamia.
An exhausting length of time contending for the truth proves fruitless, for Chrysostom
(Kiousis) and his synod would not be corrected but even sanction Bp. Paul’s giving of
communion to new calendarists.

Apr 15/29 1999 - ROCA Synod of Bishops: “We greet the bishops and clergy of the
much-suffering Church of Serbia with a fraternal kiss, and ask their holy prayers for us, who
share their great grief and sorrow.” This is an official statement by the Council of
Bishops of the ROCA, stating their prayerful unity with the Serbian Patriarchate.
Concelebrations which have been going on between ROCA clergy and Serbian Patriarchate are
officially sanctioned.

Aug 1999 - Archb. Chrysostom (Kiousis) ordains 5 young priestmonks bishops, most below the
canonical age - one who is 29 years old is even below the canonical age to be a priest. The
consecrations scandalize more of the faithful and priests who leave Chrysostom (Kiousis) for
the Synod of Met. Kallinikos of Lamia.

Mar 26, 2000 - Pope John Paul II visits the Wailing Wall, and posts a prayer: “God
of our fathers, you chose Abraham and his descendants to bring your name to the nations. We
are deeply saddened by the behavior of those who in the course of history have caused these
children of yours to suffer, and asking your forgiveness, we wish to commit ourselves to
genuine brotherhood with the people of the Covenant.”

September 7, 1999 - An earthquake occurred near Athens, Greece. The magnitude was 6.0 on
the Richter scale. There were many casualties, 143 dead and 1600 injured. 50,000 were made
homeless and 53,000 buildings were damaged or destroyed. The epicenter of the earthquake was
in Fili, exactly under the monastery of Metropolitan Cyprian. After the earthquake occurred,
a fissure opened in the earth, beginning from the local town of Parthnia, which ran directly
through the monastery, in fact, right through the church and underneath the altar table.
Unfortunately, this did not cause Metropolitan Cyprian to think about repentance. On the
contrary, he said that this was a sign from God that they should build a bigger church.

Oct 13/26, 2000 - At the October 2000 Council of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad
(ROCA), a committee was formed to investigate the possibility of union with the Moscow
Patriarchate, and an encyclical was issued to His Holiness Patriarch Pavel, Archbishop of Pec
and Metropolitan of Belgrade-Karlovtsy, Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church, in which
the bishops besought the assistance of the Patriarch to unite the two separate parts of the
Russian Church! The epistle ended with the following quote: “We are brothers by blood
and by Faith...We beseech your Holiness not to turn us away from liturgical communion with
you, for we desire, together with you, with one mouth and heart, eternally to glorify our
Saviour, Christ God.”

November 2000 - By this time, the ROAC has eight bishops (six in Russia, one in the
Ukraine, and one in Latvia) and about 450 parishes (150 above-ground and 300 catacomb
parishes).

March 2/15, 2001 - The ROAC Synod of Bishops elevates Archbishop Valentine to the rank of
Metropolitan, considering this proper to the head of the Synod of the true Orthodox Church of
Russia.

April 24, 2001 - Met. Vitaly and the ROCA Synod issue an ukaze suspending and indicting
Bishop Barnabas of Cannes for numerous canonical violations, principally the leading of a
mutiny against his ruling bishop, Ambrose, and establishing himself at the head of the
European Diocese. The Ukaze states that Bishop Barnabas and his followers “are
suspended by the Synod of Bishops until their repentance” “for distortion of
ecclesiastical discipline and disobedience to the Supreme Administration and for refusal to
commemorate during the services the diocesan ruling bishop, His Grace Bishop Ambrose”
“If they will repent and agree not only to commemorate, but also to obey Bishop
Ambrose, in this way they will discontinue their rebellion against the church authorities and
then may have their right to serve restored.” The ukaze further states that all must
obey the Synod’s summons to Munich on May 2nd for a spiritual court hearing.

May 2, 2001 - Prior to the hearing date, Bishop Barnabas and his followers gather for a
congress and issue a response to the ROCA’s ukaze and summons. They defy the authority
of the ROCA synod and refuse to attend the spiritual court hearing. On May 2nd, the ROCA
bishops present at the court hearing (Laurus, Mark, Hilarion, Ambrose, Evtikhy, and Agapit)
issue an ukaze in which they declare: “Such disobedient behavior and unauthorized acts
are a violation of canonical rules and ecclesiastical discipline. As Metropolitan Vitaly did
previously warn, as well as the Synod of Bishops, conducting the services under similar
violations is a terrible crime and deprives their sacred acts of legality and grace.”
The Ukaze notes that, continuing in rebellion, neither Barnabas nor his followers attended
the hearing as ordered by the Metropolitan and Synod. “We consider it our archpastoral
duty to inform the flock of the necessity to abstain from the incorrect and unlawful
‘sacramental acts’ of the above-mentioned clergy. Any sort of sacred acts
performed by those persons in violation of the suspension are void of grace and serve as
condemnation to those who participate in it.” It ends with a call to repentance for the
Barnabites.

July 2001 - A ukaze is circulated with Met. Vitaly’s signature and the Canadian
diocesan seal (backdated to June 20th), which unilaterally revokes the Synodal suspension and
indictment of Bishop Barnabas which Vitaly had signed earlier.

July 10, 2001 - During a full Sobor, the 91-year old Metropolitan Vitaly, due to health
reasons, is officially retired from being Metropolitan and First Hierarch of the ROCA.

July 13, 2001 - Met. Vitaly signs a Synodal “Act” in which he retires himself,
delivers his diocese to the authority of Bishops Michael and Gabriel, and designates
Archbishop Laurus of Jordanville as “Deputy of the First Hierarch” with the
responsibility to convoke a Sobor for the election of the future First Hierarch.
Additionally, the “Act” states that, without the signature of the
“Deputy”, all future documents are invalid.

Summer 2001 - The ecumenist Serbian Patr. Pavel donates 1000 German Marks to the Muslim
mufti of Belgrade, Hamid Yousufspahic, to build a Moslem school in Belgrade.

Oct. 23, 2001 - The retired Met. Vitaly attends the opening of the Council of Bishops and
voluntarily hands it his re-affirmation of his resignation and a sealed envelope with his
vote for the new First Hierarch.

Oct. 24, 2001 - The ROCA Synod elects the pro-MP Archbishop Laurus of Jordanville as the
new First Hierarch of the ROCA. The retired Met. Vitaly congratulates Met. Laurus on his
election. During the Synod’s lunch-break, Met. Vitaly learns that his secretary and
care-taker Ludmilla Rosniansky has been fired and evicted from Synod building. This provokes
a negative reaction on the part of Met. Vitaly, who leaves the Synod building to eventually
return to Mansonville, Canada.

Oct. 27, 2001 - Under the influence of his secretary and some clergymen, the retired Met.
Vitaly issues an ‘extraordinary declaration’ in which he renounces his
“signature to my voluntary retirement and the consent to transfer my authority to
Archbishop Laurus”, claiming to be the lawful head of the ROCA. In so doing, he creates
a schism between himself and the hierarchs of ROCA.

Nov. 3, 2001 - In violation of the decree set forth in the Canonical Epistle of the 3rd
Ecumenical Council (To the Synod of Pamphylia), which states that a retired bishop can no
longer govern the Church or ordain bishops, the retired Met. Vitaly, together with Bp.
Barnabas, consecrate Archimandrite Sergius (Kindiakov) as Bishop of Mansonville.

Nov. 4, 2001 - After being seized for a psychiatric evaluation by Bishop Michael and
several police officers, Met. Vitaly issues a declaration that he has “restored to
[myself] all rights as...First Hierarch...and...I have once more taken up the reins of power
and authority” and “I hereby confirm, in writing, the imposition of a triple
anathema upon You [Bishop Michael], through the power given Me from God”.

Nov. 5, 2001 - Met. Vitaly and Bishop Barnabas issue a ‘special declaration’
announcing the elevation of Barnabas to ruling hierarch and ‘Archbishop of Cannes and
all Europe’, the creation of their own Synod, and the adoption of the name
“Russian Orthodox Church in Exile (ROCE)”. The ‘special declaration’
also proclaims that “all so-called “depositions,” “bans,”
“declarations,” “resolutions,” etc., on the part of the apostates who
have seized power in the Synod (ROCA), are considered to be invalid and void”.

Nov. 8, 2001 - The ROCE synod renounces its former seven years of official inter-communion
with the Ecumenist Cyprian of Fili (’the Synod of Resisters of Greece’) and
Serbian Patriarchate. It does not, however, renounce communion with the Ecumenist Romanian
and Bulgarian ‘Resister’ churches, which are in communion with Cyprian of Fili
and hold his Ecumenist ecclesiology. The ROCE does not renounce communion with the Jerusalem
Patriarchate which is in communion with all of ‘World Orthodoxy’, and shares in
its Ecumenist heresy. Hence, the ROCE is still in communion with heretics.

Nov. 20, 2001 - The ROCE synod suspends the implementation of severing communion with the
deposed Ecumenist Cyprian of Fili. More study is needed, they say.

Nov. 24, 2001 - Metr. Vitaly issues an encyclical stating: “I have restored to
myself the rights of Head of the Church...Exclusively for the sake of cleansing the Church
from such apostates, with my blessing and participation there were performed consecrations of
new bishops: Sergius of Mansonville, Vladimir of Sacramento, and Bartholomew of
Grenada...Apostates, headed by Archbishop Laurus are considered to be outside the
Church.” Metr. Laurus and his synod, according to Met. Vitaly, have only now become
apostates, although they have not swerved from the course set by Metr. Vitaly for the past
seven years!

December 2/19, 2001 - Archimandrite Gregory of Dormition Skete, having been elected
unanimously by the ROAC Synod of Bishops, is ordained Bishop of Denver and Vicar of the ROAC
in America by Met. Valentine, Archbishop Theodore, and Catacomb Bishop Anthony of Yaransk in
the St. Constantine Cathedral, Suzdal, Russia. The ROAC now has 10 bishops.

December 29, 2001 - ROCE again breaks communion with the deposed Ecumenist Cyprian of
Fili; however, it does not renounce communion with the ‘Resister’ Synods of
Bulgaria and Romania, who are in communion with Cyprian. Nor do they renounce Met.
Vitaly’s statement that he is in communion with the Ecumenist Jerusalem Patriarchate.
In their statement against Cyprian of Fili, they acknowledge that his theology is heretical,
and falls under the ROCA Anathema of 1983. In stating this, they admit that they have
themselves been outside the Church not only by being in communion with heretics since 1994,
but also by synodally espousing Cyprian’s ecclesiology.

2002 - Metropolitan Vitaly accepts into his schismatic church Bishops Lazarus and Benjamin
with their dioceses in Russia. Without Synodal approval, Metr. Vitaly grants autonomy to the
aforementioned bishops, with permission to ordain their own Synod in Russia. The two bishops
promptly execute this plan by consecrating four new bishops, among whom was one Bishop
Tikhon. When news of the consecrations reaches Vitaly, under pressure from disgruntled Synod
members, he revokes the status of autonomy and deposes the new synod in Russia.

January 2002 - The Pope calls all religions to Assisi to pray for world peace and unity.
All ecumenist Orthodox jurisdictions attend, including the Patriarchs of Constantinople and
Moscow, along with protestants, jews, hindus, buddhists, muslims, taoists, shintoists, and
African shamanists. During the gathering, two ecumenical liturgies take place: one for all
religions and one for all ‘Christians’. The former includes common prayer,
invocations of all ‘gods’ and ‘forces’, and various rituals designed
to show unity, while the latter displays Christian unity through the sharing of the common
cup!

2003 - Upon the death of Lazarus in 2003, Archbishop Tikhon is elected to head this new
schismatic synod, thus the appelation “Tikhonites”. Thus the foundation of the
Tikhonites is built upon a history of years of their hierarchy being in communion with the
heretical Cyprianite Ecumenists and being underneath the 1983 Anathema of the Russian Church
Abroad.

July 12, 2003 - Archm. Peter Lukianov was “ordained” a bishop by Metro.
Laurus, Archb. Alypy and Bishop Kyrill in Chicago, (ROCA). In lieu of the fact that Archm.
Peter is a liberal ecumenist and that many homosexual accusations and scandals have centered
around him (accusations mostly by clergymen) during his “consecration”, one of
their own clergymen, sixty-three year old, Valentin Scheglowski, cried out
“Anaxios” (Unworthy). Instead of stopping the service, as the rubrics demand, the
clergyman was forcibly removed from the church and beaten by the thugs who removed him. He
had to be taken to the Hospital Emergency room and spent two days in the Hospital, treated
for damage to two cervical vertebrae and a dislocated shoulder.

August 24, 2003 - ROCA concelebrates with the Ecumenical Patriarchate. In Dublin the
Liturgy was concelebrated by clergy of the Russian Church Abroad and by clergy of the
Ecumenical Patriarchate, in the Greek Orthodox Church of the Annunciation, in the presence of
the sacred icon of the Kursk Mother of God. This is probably the first time since 1965. It
took place with the blessing of Archbishop Mark (ROCA, Great Britain) and Archbishop
Gregorios (Constantinople, London). Thus, the new course of apostasy in ROCA which started in
1994 exhibits a more blatant proof ROCA’s desire to unite with World Orthodoxy.

Nov. 21, 2003 - The news is officially published that Metro. Laurus has sent three ROCA
bishops, -- Archb. Mark of Berlin, Archb. Hilarion of Australia, and Bp. Kyrill of San
Francisco -- to Moscow to discuss union with ‘Patriarch’ Alexei II and his synod.
The three bishops pray with and participate in services with the ‘Patriarch’ and
his clergy and offer repentance for all past anti-sergianism and anti-Moscow Patriarchate
statements they have made. A commission is established to facilitate the union.Jan.

25/Feb. 7, 2004 - Following the decision of Metro. Kallinikos of Lamia (GOC) to retire
from being president of the Synod of the Genuine Orthodox Christians of Greece, the Synod
elects Bp. Makarios of Petra as Archbishop of Athens and all Greece, and the new president of
the Synod.

May 1, 2004 - In his welcoming address to the new head of the WCC, Patriarch Bartholomew
states as one of the founding members of the WCC in 1948, the Ecumenical Patriarchate
“has always collaborated fully”and “will continue to work within the WCC
towards the unity of the Church”.

May 17/30, 2004 - Bishop Gregory was elevated to the rank of Archbishop by the decision of
the Synod of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church Protocol #47 on March 7/20.
The elevation was granted to him because of his missionary activities.

June 24/July 7, 2004 - Metropolitan Vitaly announces to the rest of his synod that two
years before, unbeknownst to them, Fr. Nikita Orlov, (now named Anthony) a married priest,
was secretly elevated to the episcopacy by Met. Vitaly in the Metropolitan’s cell. He
then bids them greet and accept their ‘fellow-hierarch.’ Thus Metropolitan Vitaly
manages to accomplish ten uncanonical acts at the same time.

June 25/July 8, 2004 - Metropolitan Vitaly and his North American ROCIE Synod members
place ROCIE Archbishop Barnabas of Cannes and Western Europe (co-founder with Met. Vitaly of
ROCIE) under suspension for having relations with the ROCIE bishops in Russia, whom after
they had received an ukase from Vitaly making them an autonomous synod and ordaining bishops,
later received another declaring their ordinations and autonomy unlawful, and cut them off
from ROCIE; for refusing to recognize that the Metropolitan Vitaly validly forcibly retired
him at the last sobor in his controversy with his protopriest Benjamin Joukoff; for alleging
that many ROCIE sobor decisions were forgies put out by others controlling Met. Vitaly; and
for sundry other rejections of other decisions of the ROCIE sobor, to which body he gave the
title ‘a council of protopriests’ and other denigrating epiphets. In other words,
Barnabas was being insubordinate to ROCIE just as he had been toward ROCOR, and now, just as
with ROCOR, ROCIE was forced to suspend him: “In view of the above-indicated
violations, which clearly bear witness to Archbishop Varnava’s refusal to submit to the
Supreme Ecclesiastical Authority, regarding an entire array of vital issues dealing with the
ecclesiastical well-being and moral arrangement of church life, and taking into account the
written responses of all the Hierarchs: To prohibit Archbishop Varnava from conducting any
further sacred services until such time as he repents. To remind Archbishop Varnava that one
who dares to conduct Divine Services while under ban is deprived of his priestly rank.
+Metropolitan Vitaly, First-Hierarch of ROCA, +Bishop Sergii, +Bishop Vladimir, +Bishop
Varfolomey, Mitred Proto-priest Veniamin Joukoff, Secretary of the Synod of Bishops”.
Understandably, Barnabas ignored this suspension just as he had been taught by Met. Vitaly to
ignore the previous ROCOR one.

Summer 2004 - Metro. Valentine of Suzdal and Vladimir, under the influence of the Grabbe
family (his major financial supporters), falls into serious error and initiates a schism in
ROAC (America). Contrary to the Holy Canons, he receives 188 Haitian people from the
Ecumenical Patriarchate without any rite of union with the Church and who have never even
received the form of Holy Baptism, simply concelebrating with a priest of the Patriarchate.
He also declares that Priest Vladimir Shiskoff (Grabbe family) is to be promoted to the rank
of “protopresbyter” and uncanonically confirmed as “administrator of North
America”, despite having received written testimony from several witnesses that Priest
Vladimir Shiskoff has communion with clergy and laity of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, and
that he has blessed his spiritual children to have communion with ROCOR (Laurus) and ROCIE.
The Metropolitan, also swayed by their financial assistance, receives several rebel priests,
although the Holy Canons absolutely forbid them to be in the clerical list. In addition,
contrary to the Canons, the Metropolitan suborns Hierom. Andrew of Dormition Skete with
promises of episcopal consecration and unlawfully takes him from Archb. Gregory’s
diocese, along with Priest Dionysi of Colorado Springs. The Metropolitan also ordains laymen
to clerical positions in Archb. Gregory’s diocese without Archb. Gregory’s
consent. When Archb. Gregory protests against this flurry of canonical violations, the
Metropolitan declares that, as a Metropolitan in the Russian Church, he has jurisdiction in
all dioceses, including the Colorado Diocese, thus likening himself to a new Pope with
universal jurisdiction! Archb. Gregory sends an appeal to the Synod for an ecclesiastical
court to judge between himself and the Metropolitan, but they do not respond. When the
Metropolitan attempts to leave for Russia, he is apprehended by U.S. Customs officers for
currency smuggling, the authorities finding on his person $100, 000 of undeclared currency
and he is remanded to Russian custody until the U.S. court hearing set for Dec. 8th, 2004.
Returning to Russia, the Metropolitan issues via e-mail Protocols #48 and #49, declaring that
an uncanonical court of himself and 5 other bishops has broken communion with Archb. Gregory
because of “his canonical violations.” The majority of ROAC clergy and faithful
in America and in Bulgaria side with Archb. Gregory, but the “new” clergy and the
Grabbe family side with Metro. Valentine, thus inaugurating a schism.

September 11, 2004 - The Patriarch of Alexandria, Peter VII, along with three of his
bishops, a number of his clergy and others, 17 persons total, are killed in a helicopter
crash four miles from the Holy Mountain. He, a new-calendarist ecumenist, was traveling to
the Monastery of Vatopedi to celebrate that Monday the Feast of the Deposition of the
Precious Sash of the Mother of God according to the Old Calendar, for the second time.

October/November 2004 - The family of Fr. Michael Graves of ROAC-Haiti releases news of
his sudden and unexpected death, his body having been found the previous week in his bathroom
after parishioners’ noticed his several days’ absence from the mission-school.
The parish and the family are justifiably upset because all ROAC-Valentine bishops and clergy
refuse to travel to Haiti to bury their priest as required by Church tradition and ritual,
but instead demand the immediate sale of the departed clergyman’s vestments and
ecclesiastical goods, with the proceeds to go to themselves. The parish being left penniless,
despite Metropolitan Valentine’s guarantees of generous financial support, and with
only the leadership of Fr. Michael’s 188 recently converted, unbaptized Haitians, they
decide to leave ROAC and return to the wealthy but heretical Greek Archdiocese of Central
America and its S.C.O.B.A. funds. This marks the beginning of a series of events leading to
the dissolution of ROAC-Valentine or AROC in this hemisphere.

Nov. 8, 2004 - ROCOR (Laurus) Chancery (internet site) publicizes with photographs and
articles the visit of Patriarch Pavle of Serbia to Australia and ROCOR concelebrations with
the Patriarch: “...while visiting the Serbian parishes of the Serbian Orthodox Church
in Melbourne, Canberra and Syndey, His Holiness Patriarch has daily served liturgies during
which clergymen of the Serbian Church and the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad concelebrated
with his Holiness.”“During the first days of his visit, the Patriarch presided
over services in Melbourne churches in which at the special invitation of the local Serbian
diocese some clergymen of the Church Abroad participated. During the Liturgy in Canberra with
His Holiness were concelebrating Priest-monk Joachim (Ross) and Protodeacon Vassily Yakimov,
and on November 8th, on the day of commemoration of the Great Martyr Dmitri of Thessalonika,
the Archbishop of Sydney and Australia-New Zealand Hilarion, Archpriests Michael Protopopov
and Michael Le, Priest-monk Joachim (Ross) and Deacon Vadim Gan concelebrated witht His
Holiness, Bishop of Shumadia John and Serbian clergy at the festive Liturgy conducted with
the patriarchal rite in St. George Church in Canberra.”[Church New, Oct. 2004]

Nov. 6/19, 2004 - Metropolitan Vitaly and his North American hierarchs declare Archbishop
Barnabas (co-founder of ROCIE together with Met. Vitaly) deposed for ignoring his suspension
and continuing to serve and revile the ROCIE sobor’s decisions, alleging them to be
forgeries by others in control of the Metropolitan. This is yet another example of
schismatics bickering among themselves and causing more schisms.

June 21, 2005 - ROCOR(Laurus) Chancellery releases information concerning the recent talks
and decisions of the ROCOR(Laurus) and Moscow Patriarchate. Among the Joint-Resolutions of
the Unification Committees we find the scandalous recognition and applause of the apostate
Metropolitan Sergius Stragorodsky: On the one hand, “the ‘Declaration’ [of
Metropolitan Sergius that the Church’s goals are Communism’s goals, that the
Church must be a conscientious servant of the Soviet Union in fulfilling these goals, etc.]
was a coerced document that did not reflect the free will of the Church.” However, this
assessment “does not equate to a condemnation of His Holiness Patriarch
Sergius,.besmirch his person, and mitigate His First-Hierarchical podvig [spiritual feat] of
service in the difficult years of the Church’s life in the Soviet Union”. In
essence, they are saying that although the Declaration was not quite what it should have
been, Metropolitan Sergius accomplished a great spiritual act of service to the Church in
taking the position that he did [i.e., in making the Church the Bolshevik’s agent and
betraying to death as ‘political revolutionaries’ all the New-Martyrs who did not
unite with antichrist Communism as he did!] and he remained the canonical head of the Russian
Church. Of course, this absolutely contradicts all the previous decisions and declarations of
the holy Metropolitans Anthony, Anastasy, and Philaret as well as the official decisions of
the ROCOR in 1928 and thereafter that Sergius was a traitor to Christ’s Church, an
uncanonical usurper, a schismatic, and an apostate and that his pseudo-synod was graceless.
The joint resolution of the ROCOR-MP committee also stated that all the previous decisions
and teachings of the ROCOR synod under Blessed Metropolitans Anthony, Anastassy, and St.
Philaret are declared “invalid” and ignored!

July 26, 2005 - ROAC-Valentine releases amazing news of a conspiracy and an attempted
succession on the part of the “AROC”or followers of Met. Valentine in the U.S.A.
According to Ukase #63 of Metropolitan Valentine of this date, AROC/ROAC-Valentine (U.S.A.)
clergy and chief administrators Fathers Victor Melehov, Spyridon Schneider, and Christopher
Johnson had traveled to Russia and enticed Archbishop Anthony of Yaransk, the Suzdal convent
of the Deposition of the Mantle of the Virgin Mary, and also possibly Archbishop Seraphim of
Abkhazia and Sukhimi into succeeding from Met. Valentine’s Synod on the pretext of the
continuing heretical preaching of the newly-promoted Archimandrite Gregory Lurie on the
worship of the name of God and other issues, with the intention of having them ordain Fr.
Christopher and forming their own synod. However, as soon as Met. Valentine got wind of the
plot, apparently being informed of it by Archbishop Seraphim, he immediately conferred with
the alienated bishops, promoted Bishop Anthony of Yaransk to Archbishop with a place on the
governing synod of ROAC and announced the planned formation of a committee to be headed by
Archbishop Anthony of Yaransk to investigate the teachings of Hieromonk Gregory Lurie
(again). Then, having thus bought off and pacified Archbishop Anthony, the Metropolitan
announced the immediate suspension (effective June 26th) of all the clergy involved in the
plot, in anticipation of their trial and deposition. It was later discovered that AROC
Archpriest Dionysi McGowen had also been involved in the plot and therefore suffered
suspension as well. The immediate result of these events is that now AROC only has one
functioning parish in the Western Hemisphere, that of Fr. Vladimir Shishkoff in New Jersey.
ROAC-Russia media spokespersons repeatedly speak of the consistently schismatic and
unorthodox history and past behavior of the suspended “unworthy”clergy, which is
most ironic given the fact that it was for such schismatical and unorthodox characteristics
among other things that Archbishop Gregory opposed their entry into ROAC and that in defense
of these very clergy Met. Valentine chose to cause a schism to secure their entry.

September 5, 2005 - ROAC-Valentine releases news that because of “obstinancy”
toward the Metropolitan and disobedience to the Synodal instruction not to preach concerning
the heresy of Name-Worshipping and other similar admonitions, the newly-elevated
Archimandrite Gregory Lourie has been deposed. Lourie and his supporters do not accept the
validity of this decision, promptly suggest the retirement of the incompetant Met. Valentine,
and begin sending out feelers for a possible transfer to HOCNA and Lourie’s ordination
to the HOCNA episcopate if ROAC-Valentine does not correct itself. Yet again, it is ironic
that Met. Valentine has finally deposed Fr. Gregory Lourie, for whose sake he has not shirked
from creating or suffering schisms in Russia, England, America, and almost a fourth in Russia
and America, and now it looks like a 4th schism will be caused by Fr. Gregory’s St.
Petersburg parish leaving. At last, after nearly 6 years of Fr. Gregory’s heretical
preaching, having lost so many parishes and a bishop and threatened with the loss of his
catacomb parishes and bishops, it seems that the Metropolitan was forced to remove him, since
it was proving far too costly to keep him.

November 1, 2005 - Matushka Anastasia Schatiloff, nee Grabbe, the daughter of Bishop
Gregory Grabbe,who encouraged Met. Valentine to break the canons and an instigator of the
ROAC schism in America against Archbishop Gregory, was seriously injured in an accident in
Suzdal. She fell down some stairs and broke her neck, lower back, and two ribs. She was flown
back to New York and died on Tuesday evening, November 1. She was a member of ROAC, yet she
was buried by ROCOR clergy and she had her funeral service chanted at the ROCOR Cathedral in
New York.

November 14, 2005 - On the Feast of the Protection of the Virgin Mary, Metropolitan
Valentine was attacked in his home. Three intruders knocked him down, gave him a hard blow to
the head and he lost consciousness. Then he was repeatedly beaten about the stomach and
liver. They tore the bandages from his ulcerated foot, dragged him to a large room where they
bound his hands and feet with a lamp cord and a towel, taped over his mouth, and rolled him
up inside a carpet. He was latter found and sent to the hospital and went to Switzerland to
recuperate.

June 23, 2006 - Archbishop Anthony (Orloff), against any canonical order, and against his
“Metropolitan” Vitaly, starts a new church by issuing an Ukaz where he says that
“he counts this his duty to take temporary rule of the ROCOR(V)” This marks the
beginning of a schism of a schism new church “ROCOR(A)” With bishop Victor
(Pivovarov) of Kuban they ordain two more bishops, Bishop Damascene of Central Russia and
Bishop Stephan of Ust-Sysol and Northern Russia. Metropolitan Vitaly suspends both Anthony
and Victor.

November 2-4, 2006 - Archbishop Anthony (Orlov) was elected a First-Hierarch of the
ROCOR(A) a “Sobor” of a church in the village of Scherbinka (Moscow region,
Russia). The new “First-Hierarch” of this church Metropolitan Anthony will have
the title of “Metropolitan of Moscow and All Russia”!, and the church will have
the name of a Russian (Rossijskaya) Orthodox Church. They “ordain” Bishop
Athanasy of Nizhni Novgorod and Ural. ROCOR(A) has five bishops and about ten priests now.
The new “Metropolitan of Moscow and All Russia”, Anthony, promised, “I will
not rule the Church from abroad, I will come often”!.

12 November 2006 - Church of England calls for severely disabled babies to be killed at
birth. The Church has broken with traditional dogma by calling for doctors to be allowed to
let sick newborn babies die.

2007 – The heretic Metropolitan Cyprian Koutsoumbas falls into a coma. It lasts until May
2013.

May 17, 2007 - The Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, (The Russian Church Abroad,
ROCOR) officially signs the “Act of Canonical Communion with the Moscow
Patriarchate”. The act was signed by Metropolitan Laurus who would not live to see
another victory of Orthodoxy celebration on the Sunday of Orthodoxy, having died on March 16,
2008, the eve of Orthodoxy Sunday, after having forbade the reading of the ROCOR’s 1983
“Anathema Against Ecumenism.”

Dec. 2007 - Bishop Agathangel, who was ordained by the ROCOR bishops in Russia, yet
remained with the ROCOR even after their union with the heretic Cyprian, but abandoned them
after the union with the heretical Moscow Patriarchate, ordains two bishops to form a new
synod for himself! To help him accomplish this lawless act, he chooses and invites two
bishops from the heretical Cyprianite Synod, George of Alania and the impious Ambrose of
Methoni.

Jan. 2008 - Bishop John of Colorado Springs is ordained to the episcopacy by Archb.
Gregory and Archb. Ambrose, who had been received into the Genuine Orthodox Church earlier in
2007.

March 16, 2008 - Sunday of Orthodoxy - At the first celebration of Orthodoxy Sunday of the
Russian Orthodox Church outside of Russia after it joined the Moscow Patriarchate, it’s
apostate leader Metropolitan Laurus was found dead in his bed. The night before, he forbade
his clergy, for the first time, to proclaim in church the Russian Church Abroad’s 1983
Anathema against Ecumenism. He was found dead before the “celebration” of the
liturgy at Holy Trinity Monastery in, Jordanville, New York.

2009 - Patriarch Bartholomew gave an interview with PBS on the Charlie Rose Show in the
United States. Question by Charlie Rose: “Do all religions have the same heavenly
father?” Answer by Patriarch Bartholomew: “Of course, we are all created by the
same God and as such we are all brothers and sisters and we have the same heavenly father
whatever we call him. God is but one independent of the name we give him, Allah or
Yahweh.”

Orthodoxy Sunday 2009 - The Synod of Bishops of the Genuine Orthodox Church of America
(GOCA) under the leadership of Archbishop Gregory of Denver issued the following: TO THE
deposed Metropolitan Cyprian Koutsoumbas, “the Exorcist,” and propagator of
demonic teaching, and to all those who follow him, who teach that those who fall into heresy
are still part of the Church of Christ, and that their mysteries are grace-filled, and who
teach that the Church of Christ is divided into two parts—one ailing with heresy and one
healthy without heresy—and thus maintain that the holy body of Christ not only can be divided
and but also be infected with the disease of falsehood, who oppose the holy Apostle Paul who
says that the holy Church is a “glorious Church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any
such things [Eph. 5:27],” and who commune heretics and have therefore succumbed to the
heresy of Ecumenism, ANATHEMA (Anathema means a complete cutting off from God and separation
from the Church and consignment to the devil.)

September 2010 - Archbishop Chrysostom Kiousis of the G.O.C. of Greece (the schismatic
group) dies and his synod elects Metropolitan Kallinikos of Achaia to be Archbishop.

January 2012 - Metr. Valentine, head of ROAC, reposes and is replaced by Archb. Theodore,
who is elevated to the rank of Metropolitan. Since Metr. Valentine’s 2004 schism, the
ROAC has lost all its churches in the Suzdal and surrounding area. The faithful now have to
resort to prayer in their homes as in the times of the Communist era.

Nov. 2012 - Mass exodus from HOCNA (Holy Orthodox Church of North America). One bishop, 31
parishes and 15 monks leave HOCNA and Holy Transfiguration Monastery as its abbot openly
confesses that he lied to the ROCA bishops in hiding the homosexual lifestyle/sins of
Archimandrite Panteleimon in 1985. HOCNA’s adoption of the name-worshipping heresy and
the belief of “repentance after death” also played a factor in the exodus. In
order to keep their rank and positions this group joined the G.O.C.of Greece-Kallinikos,
another schismatic group that falls under the 1983 Anathema against Ecumenism.

April 2013 - Archbishop Makarios of the G.O.C. of Greece and his synod, formerly the
Lamian Synod, enters into union with the loathsome parasynagogue synod of HOCNA (Holy
Orthodox Church of North America), led by the deposed Archimandrite Panteleimon and his
uncanonical bishops! HOCNA and Holy Transfiguration Monastery have become known as a
sanctuary for homosexual clergy. Metropolitan Christopher of Mesogaia and Metropolitan
Ambrose of Drama of the Makarios Synod break communion and leave because of this union. This
action now makes the synod of the G.O.C. under Makarios a schismatic group!

May 17/30, 2013 - The heretic Metropolitan Cyprian Koutsoumbas dies after being in a coma
for six years. His body immediately turns rock hard with his mouth wide open, to the shock of
his devoted followers. A fan is put in the church during his funeral to drive the smell of
his body away from the faithful. This shocking death would spur his “bishops” to
seek a futile union with the GOC of Greece (Kallinikos) one year later.

March 2014 - The schismatic synod of the G.O.C. of Greece under Archbishop Kallinikos and
the heretical synod of the Cyprianites, the Synod of Resistors, enter into union with each
other. This is accomplished with no repentance from either side. Two illegitimate and
schismatic groups unite to form one Synod led by Kallinikos, composed of twenty-two
bishops.

May 2014 – Pope Francis makes a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. During his three-day visit he
entered the church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. Not many hours after he left, fire broke out
in the Grotto of the Nativity.

Dec. 14/27 2016 - Archimandrite Panteleimon dies in the Boston Transfiguration monastery
due to kidney failure, not having publicly repented for his past immorality which gave birth
to the “Holy Orthodox Church of North America” (HOCNA) the schismatic synod.

Nov. 2018 - The Greek Orthodox Church of the Assumption in Saint Claire Shores, Michigan,
opened its doors to approximately 110 dogs to attend a memorial service for a police dog that
was killed! The priest, Father Michael Varlamos prayed that God would grant eternal life to
this dog! This is considered a graphic image of the effects of Ecumenism wherein all holiness
has departed from those who espouse and will not condemn this heresy.